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Martin, William Harrison

soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1822, in Twiggs county, Ga. He was elected to the Texas state senate in 1853, and re-elected in 1855. In 1861 he raised a company for the confederate army, and was mustered into the fourth Texas regiment; was assigned to Lee's army, and participated in all the battles of that army till the surrender in April, 1865. He returned to Athens, and resumed the practice of law.

In 1872 he was elected district attorney; and at the expiration of his term of office he retired to his farm and ranch, which he was running when elected to the fiftieth congress and re-elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a democrat.