Martin Joseph Wade

Martin Joseph Wade (October 20, 1861 – April 16, 1931) was a United States representative from Iowa and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Education and career Born on October 20, 1861, in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, Wade moved to Iowa with his parents at an early age, eventually settling on a farm in Butler County, "which was then largely a broad, unbroken prairie, and the usual hardships of pioneer life were experienced". He attended the common schools and St. Joseph's College (later Columbia University) in Dubuque, Iowa. He received a Bachelor of Laws in 1886 from the University of Iowa College of Law. He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Iowa City, Iowa from 1886 to 1893. He was a faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1890 to 1903, as a lecturer in law from 1890 to 1894 and as a Professor of Medical Jurisprudence from 1894 to 1903. He was a Judge of the Iowa District Court for the Eighth Judicial District from 1893 to 1902. He was President of the Iowa State Bar Association in 1897 and 1898. Congressional service