James Edgar Martine

James Edgar Martine was an American Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey.

He was born in New York City on August 25, 1850. He moved with his parents to Plainfield, New Jersey in 1857 attended the public schools engaged in agricultural pursuits, the real estate business, and in building member of the Plainfield common council unsuccessful candidate for election as Mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey unsuccessful candidate in 1906 for election to the Sixtieth United States Congress. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1911, to March 4, 1917, where he served as chairman of the Committee on Coast Defenses , Committee on Industrial Expositions unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 resumed agricultural pursuits died in Miami, Florida interment in Hillside Cemetery located in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

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