{{Short description|American politician}} {{no footnotes|date=March 2013}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Martin Gorski | image = Martin Gorski (Illinois Congressman).jpg | caption = From 1949's ''Pictorial Directory of the 81st Congress'' | birth_date = {{birth date|1886|10|30}} | birth_place = Poland | death_date={{death date and age|1949|12|04|1886|10|30}} | death_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | office = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois | term_start = January 3, 1943 | term_end = December 4, 1949 | predecessor = Harry P. Beam (4th)<br/>Adolph J. Sabath (5th) | successor = James V. Buckley (4th)<br/>John C. Kluczynski (5th) | constituency = {{ushr|IL|4|4th district}} (1943-49)<br/>{{ushr|IL|5|5th district}} (1949) | party = Democrat | spouse = | children = }}

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==Early life and career== Born in Poland, Gorski immigrated in 1889 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Chicago, Illinois. Gorski graduated from business college and from Chicago (Illinois) Law School in 1917. He was admitted to the bar in 1917 and set up a practice in Chicago, Illinois. Gorski served as assistant State's attorney 1918-1920 and then he served as master in chancery of the Superior Court of Cook County from 1929 to 1942.

==Tenure in Congress== thumb|right|150px|Gorski's grave at Resurrection Cemetery

Gorski was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his death on December 4, 1949. He was interred in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois.

==See also== * List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)

==References== {{CongBio|G000332}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gorney-goulart.html Martin Gorski] at ''The Political Graveyard'' *{{cite book |last=United States Congress |date=1950 |title=Martin Gorski, Late a Representative |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004873237;view=1up;seq=9 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office}}

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