Charles Martin was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born near Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, Martin moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois, in 1860.
He attended the public schools.
He engaged in business as a sewer contractor and later as a coal dealer.
He served as alderman in the city council 1894-1903 from 1905 to 1907, and 1910-1913, and again elected in 1915.

Martin was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-fifth

65th United States Congress

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 Congress and served from March 4, 1917, until his death in Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1917.
He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.