73rd Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death. During that time, he worked on the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. Among his other efforts, he framed holding company legislation while on the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Personal life On September 6, 1892 or 1902, he married Rose May Chitwood at Wellington, Kansas. They had a daughter, Stella. He wrote a novel based on the lives of his wife's parents who were pioneer settlers in Kansas. Published in 1908, it depicted the "dawn life of the prairie West and its people." He contacted a case of ptomaine poisoning and died in Washington, D.C. on December 23, 1939. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado. See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49) References External links John Andrew Martin (1868-1939) at politicalgraveyard.com 1939 deaths 1868 births Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado Democratic Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives