Joseph A. Martin
{{Short description|American politician}}
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| office =Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
| term_start = June 10, 1924
| term_end = August 2, 1924
| predecessor = Frank Ellsworth Doremus
| successor = John C. Lodge
| birth_date = 1888
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| death_date = October 17, 1928
| death_place = Detroit, Michigan
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Joseph A. Martin (1888 – October 17, 1928) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan in 1924.
Biography
Joseph A. Martin was born on June 26, 1888.{{cite web | title = Mayors of U.S. Cities A - L | publisher = WorldStatesmen.org | url = http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_Mayors.html | accessdate = November 7, 2010}} He was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923.{{citation | title = Frank Murphy, Volume 2 |author = Sidney Fine | publisher = University of Michigan Press | year = 1975 |isbn = 0-472-32949-9 | page = 172 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ecbzqNewkcIC&pg=PA172}} He served as acting mayor in 1924 after Frank Ellsworth Doremus resigned for health reasons.{{citation | title = Municipal manual of the city of Detroit | year = 1984}} 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).{{citation | title = A Michigan reader: 1865 to the present |author1 = Robert Mark Warner | author2 = C. Warren Vander Hill | publisher = Eerdmans | year = 1974 | isbn = 0-8028-7030-9 | page = 175 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ronhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Joseph+a+Martin%22+%22john+w+smith%22}}
Joseph A. Martin died on October 17, 1928 when he was 40.{{cite news | title = Former Detroit Official Killed | newspaper = The New York Times | date = October 18, 1928}}{{Cite web |date=2020-06-27 |title=Joseph A. Martin, 54th Mayor of Detroit |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-A-Martin-54th-Mayor-of-Detroit/6000000103885558865 |access-date=2024-05-21 |website=geni_family_tree |language=en-US}}
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{{s-bef | before=Frank Ellsworth Doremus}}
{{s-ttl | title=Mayor of Detroit | years = June 10, 1924 – August 2, 1924}}
{{s-aft | after=John C. Lodge}}
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