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Show BULL MOOSER IN 1 THE LOWER HOUSE IE ' '''''' a Whitmell P. Martin. Whitmell P. Martin, of the third Louisiana district, is one of the seven Progressives in the house of representatives repre-sentatives and the first non-Democratic congressman from Louisiana in over twenty-five years. He was an alternate to the' Democratic convention con-vention in 1912, but in the laBt congressional con-gressional election bolted the party because of the sugar issue and defeated de-feated his Democratic opponent by 1,425 votes. He was formerly a district dis-trict judire. |