Joseph A. Martin

Joseph A. Martin (1888 October 17, 1928) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan in 1924.

Joseph A. Martin
50th Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
In office
June 10, 1924  August 2, 1924
Preceded byFrank Ellsworth Doremus
Succeeded byJohn C. Lodge
Personal details
Born1888
DiedOctober 17, 1928
Detroit, Michigan

Biography

Joseph A. Martin was born on June 26, 1888.[1] He was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923.[2] He served as acting mayor in 1924 after Frank Ellsworth Doremus resigned for health reasons.[3] Martin resigned to concentrate on running for mayor, but lost a three-way race to John W. Smith (with Charles Bowles as the write-in candidate).[4]

Joseph A. Martin died on October 17, 1928.[5]

Political offices
Preceded by
Frank Ellsworth Doremus
Mayor of Detroit
June 10, 1924 – August 2, 1924
Succeeded by
John C. Lodge

References

  1. "Mayors of U.S. Cities A - L". WorldStatesmen.org. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
  2. Sidney Fine (1975), Frank Murphy, Volume 2, University of Michigan Press, p. 172, ISBN 0-472-32949-9
  3. Municipal manual of the city of Detroit, 1984
  4. Robert Mark Warner; C. Warren Vander Hill (1974), A Michigan reader: 1865 to the present, Eerdmans, p. 175, ISBN 0-8028-7030-9
  5. "Former Detroit Official Killed". The New York Times. October 18, 1928.
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