Charles Henry Martin (August 28, 1848 – April 19, 1931) was aUnited States representative fromNorth Carolina. Martin was born nearYoungsville,Franklin County, N.C., on August 28, 1848. He attended the common schools and the preparatory department ofWake Forest College, graduating from Wake Forest in 1872 and from theUniversity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1875. He later studied at theSouthern Baptist Theological Seminary inLouisville, Kentucky.

Martin worked as a principal of the high schools atBadin andLumberton, North Carolina, and was a professor ofLatin at a female college atMurfreesboro, North Carolina, and later taught at Wake Forest College. He was admitted to thebar in 1879, practicing law inLouisburg and later inRaleigh. Martin was ordained as aBaptist minister in 1887.

Martin moved toPolkton, North Carolina, after marrying Mary Williams, who was from that area.^[1] There, he ran against DemocratJames A. Lockhart for Congress (6th District) as aPopulist in 1894. After Lockhart was at first declared the winner, Martin successfully contested the election and was seated by the House during theFifty-fourth Congress. He was reelected to theFifty-fifth Congress and served from June 5, 1896, to March 3, 1899. Martin did not seek renomination in 1898 and resumed his ministerial duties at Polkton, where he died on April 19, 1931.

His great-grandfather wasNathaniel Macon.^[2]

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