Mārtiņš Antons

Mārtiņš Antons (7 January 1888, in Kocēni parish – 1941) was a Latvian lawyer and politician.

He graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1912, Faculty of Law, then worked as a lawyer in Riga. During the First World War he was a Baltic Refugees Committee member, and the Latvian Riflemen Organizing Committee. He was elected member of the Constitutional Assembly (1920), and Labor Party member of the presidium. Involved with politicians in Stockholm, he was deported to Russia, and was killed in 1941 during World War II.

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