| LC control no. | n 87870749 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Martin, Thomas S. (Thomas Staples), 1847-1919 |
| Birth date | 1847-07-29 |
| Death date | 1919-11-12 |
| Place of birth | Scottsville (Va.) |
| Place of death | Charlottesville (Va.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Copeland, W.S. Papers, 1907-1954 (Martin, Thomas Staples, 1847-1919) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Martin, Thomas Staples, 1847-1919; usage: Thomas S. Martin) Bio. Dir. of Am. Cong., 1774-1961: p. 1270, etc. (Martin, Thomas Staples; Sen. from Va.) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed January 20, 2022 (Martin, Thomas Staples, a Senator from Virginia; born in Scottsville, Albemarle County, Va., July 29, 1847; attended the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington 1864-1865, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1865-1867; served in the Confederate army; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced in Albemarle County; member of the board of visitors of the Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle County; member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1893; reelected in 1899, 1905, 1911, and 1918, and served from March 4, 1895, until his death in Charlottesville, Va., November 12, 1919; Democratic caucus chairman 1911-1913, 1917-1919; chairman, Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Fifty-seventh through Fifty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); interment in the University of Virginia Cemetery) |
| Associated language | eng |
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