Whitmell Pugh Martin

Whitmell Martin's closest race came in 1916. Elected two years earlier as a Progressive, a Bull Moose, he won re-election to Congress by 99 votes over Sheriff Wade O. Martin Sr. After he moved to the Democrats in 1918, his seat stopped being contested: he won five more elections without opposition. In 1920 he went to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco as a delegate. An Episcopalian, he died in Washington on April 6, 1929, aged 61, about five weeks into a new term, and was buried in this churchyard.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — steps away
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.
• Laurel Valley Village — 2.2 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.7 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• Felix Grundy Winder — steps away
• Marcus Pennington Zills — steps away
• St. John's Historic Cemetery — steps away
• John Carlton Beatty — steps away