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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Massachusetts / USJoseph William MARTIN, Jr.
(1884-1968)
MARTIN, Joseph William,
Jr., a Representative from Massachusetts; born in North
Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., November 3, 1884; attended the
public schools and was graduated from North Attleboro High School
in 1902; reporter on the Attleboro Sun and Providence Journal
1902-1908; publisher of the Evening Chronicle at North Attleboro
since 1908 and also publisher of the Franklin (Mass.) Sentinel;
member of the State house of representatives 1912-1914; served in
the State senate 1914-1917; chairman of the Massachusetts Street
Railway Investigating Commission in 1917; chairman of the
Massachusetts legislative campaign committee in 1917; executive
secretary of the Republican State committee 1922-1925; delegate to
the Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1936, 1940, 1948,
1952, and 1956; permanent chairman of the Republican National
Conventions in 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; member of the
Republican National Committee, serving as chairman 1940-1942;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the twenty
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1967); minority
leader in the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth,
Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, and
Eighty-fifth Congresses; Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1966; returned to North Attleboro, Mass.; died in
Hollywood, Fla., March 6, 1968; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery,
North Attleboro, Mass.
Bibliography
Hasenfus, William A. “Managing Partner: Joseph W. Martin,
Jr., Republican Leader of the United States House of
Representatives, 1939-1959.” Ph.D. diss., Boston College,
1986; Martin, Joseph William. My First Fifty Years in Politics,
as told to Robert J. Donovon. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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