Joseph A. Martin

Joseph A. Martin
50th Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
In office June 10, 1924 – August 2, 1924
Preceded by	Frank Ellsworth Doremus
Succeeded by	John C. Lodge
Personal details
Born	1888 (1888)
Died	October 17, 1928(1928-10-17) (aged 39–40) Detroit, Michigan

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. He was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923.^[1] He served as acting mayor in 1924 after Frank Ellsworth Doremus resigned for health reasons.^[2] 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).^[3]

Joseph A. Martin died on October 17, 1928 when he was 40.^[4]

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

References

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

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