Martin Fox
{{Short description|American union leader (1848-1907)}}
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| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio
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| death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio
| burial_place = Calvary Cemetery, Cincinnati
| occupation = Labor leader
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Martin Fox (August 22, 1848 – September 28, 1907) was an American labor union leader.
Biography
Born in Cincinnati, Fox followed his father in becoming an iron molder.{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0XoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA119-IA1 |title=Martin Fox |journal=The Foundry |volume=31 |number=183 |page=120 |date=November 1907 |access-date=2023-05-09 |via=Google Books}} He learned the trade at an early age, becoming a journeyman when only 16, and he joined the National Union of Iron Molders. He moved to Covington, Kentucky, and while there, in 1878, became a trustee of the union. From 1880 to 1886, he worked in the office of the president of the union, as a clerk, then in 1886 was elected as secretary of the union.{{cite journal |title=Martin Fox is dead |journal=Castings |date=October 1907 |page=41}}{{cite book |title=The Samuel Gompers Papers |date=1986 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252033896}}
In 1890, Fox was elected as president the union, which had become known as the "Iron Molders Union of North America". He also served on the executive of the National Civic Federation. He stood down as president of the union in 1903, but continued working for it as a paid consultant, until his death at his home in Cincinnati on September 28, 1907.
He was buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Cincinnati, where his grave marker is by far the largest in the cemetery.{{cite book |last1=Grace |first1=Kevin |last2=White |first2=Tom |title=Cincinnati Cemeteries |date=2004 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=9780738533483}}
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{{succession box|title=President of the Iron Molders' Union of North America|years=1890–1903|before=Patrick J. Fitzpatrick|after=Joseph F. Valentine}}
{{succession box|title=American Federation of Labor delegate to the Trades Union Congress|years=1897|with=George E. McNeill|before=Jeremiah Sullivan|before2=Adolph Strasser|after=James Duncan|after2=Henry Demarest Lloyd}}
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Category:American trade union leaders