Martin A. Foran

Who was Martin A. Foran?

Martin Ambrose Foran was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Foran was born in Choconut Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He lived on his father's farm and learned the art of coopering. Foran attended the public schools and St. Joseph's College. He taught school three years. Spent two years in Ireland. He served as a private in the Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, from April 1864 to July 1865. After the war, he taught for a few months. He found work as a cooper at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, March 11, 1868. He was prominent in his trade, and was president of the Coopers International Union, and editor of the Coopers Journal from 1870 to 1874. He served as member of the State constitutional convention of Ohio in 1873. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Cleveland. He served as prosecuting attorney for the city of Cleveland 1875-1877.

Foran was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection. He resumed the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio.