Martin Beaty

Martin Beaty was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Abingdon, Virginia. In his life, he worked as an iron furnace operator, a salt manufacturer, a rancher, and a farmer. Beaty was a slaveowner.
Beaty was a member of the Kentucky Senate 1824-1828 and 1832. He served as a presidential elector for Henry Clay and John Sergeant in 1832 and William Henry Harrison and Francis Granger in 1836. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 21st [United States Congress|Twenty-first Congress] in 1828, and to the Twenty-second Congress in 1830, but was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834. After leaving Congress, he was a member of the Kentucky [House of Representatives], 1848. He died in 1856 in Belmont, Texas, where he was buried in Belmont Cemetery.
He was the great-grandfather of Fiddlin' John Carson