Pat Martin (Napoleon's World)

Patrick D. "Pat" Martin (born December 13, 1955) is an American Democratic politician from Kahokia who served as the United States Representatives for Kahokia's 1st Congressional District from 2001-2007 and as a State Senator from 1991-2001, and who currently serves as the Chairman of the Kahokia Building Trades Council.

Martin, a trade unionist and journeyman carpenter by trade, was elected to a Winnipeg-area State Senate seat in the 1990 Democratic landslide, winning an open Democratic-held seat despite zero political experience with close to 70% of the vote. In the Senate he gained a reputation as an outspoken firebrand known for off-color comments, and often clashed with Senate Majority Leader Bill Schenk. After Nationalist US Rep. Brian Pallister vacated his seat in the 1st CD to run for Governor in 2000, Martin won a five-way primary with a narrow plurality and narrowly defeated fellow State Sen. Bob Sopuck in the general, regaining the 1st for Democrats. He was seen as a gadfly in the Democratic caucus in DC and not particularly well-liked by his colleagues, serving on the Labor Committee.

In 2006, during a watershed year for the National Party in Kahokia, incumbent Martin was defeated 60-40 by State Senator Robert Sopuck in a rematch, who crushed Martin in the eastern, northern and southern rural areas of the 1st and carried many of the Winnipeg-area districts Martin had decisively won in his previous three races. It was the worst loss by a Democratic incumbent in the country.