Patrick Minor MARTIN, Congress, CA (1924-1968)

MARTIN, Patrick Minor, a Representative from California; born in Norfolk, Madison County, Nebr., November 25, 1924; attended the public schools; graduated from Riverside (Calif.) Junior College in 1947, the University of California at Berkeley in 1949, and the Hastings College of Law at San Francisco in 1953; passed the bar and began the practice of law in Riverside, Calif.; served in the United States Coast Guard, 1943-1945, as a radioman; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Long Beach, Calif., July 18, 1968; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present