Martin Ingham Townsend (February 6, 1810 – March 8, 1903) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

In 1869, he ran on the Republican ticket for New York State Attorney General, but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat Marshall B. Champlain.

[5] He reportedly did not appreciate the nickname however due to Gladstone's support of the South during the U.S. Civil War.

[3] Together, they were the parents of a daughter:[7] Townsend became gravely ill in December 1891,[10] but recovered and lived for 12 more years.

He died at his home in Troy, New York, of bronchial pneumonia[3] on March 8, 1903.