{"id":777,"date":"2011-06-05T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=777"},"modified":"2011-06-05T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:35:33","slug":"joseph-john-martin-1833-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/joseph-john-martin-1833-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph John Martin (1833-1900)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800040;font-size: medium\">MARTIN, Joseph John, <\/span>a Representative from North Carolina; born in Williamston, Martin County, N.C., November 21, 1833; attended Williamston Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and practiced; prosecuting attorney of Martin County, N.C.; elected solicitor for the second judicial district of North Carolina in 1868; reelected in 1874 and served in this capacity until his nomination for Congress in 1878, when he resigned; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876; presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Forty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1879, until January 29, 1881, when he was succeeded by Jesse J. Yeates, who contested the election; resumed the practice of law in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N.C.; postmaster of Tarboro from 1897 until his death in that city on December 18, 1900; interment in Williamston Cemetery, Williamston, N.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Visit his FindAGrave Memorial &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lwldfc\"><strong>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lwldfc<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=M000190\">http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=M000190<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN, Joseph John, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Williamston, Martin County, N.C., November 21, 1833; attended Williamston Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and practiced; prosecuting attorney of Martin County, N.C.; elected solicitor for the second judicial district of North Carolina in 1868; reelected in 1874 and served in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/joseph-john-martin-1833-1900\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joseph John Martin (1833-1900)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}