Joseph William Martin, Jr.

Joseph William Martin Jr. ( born November 3, 1884 in North Attleborough, Bristol County, Massachusetts, † March 6, 1968 ibid ) an American politician ( Republican).

Life

Martin was born in 1884 in Massachusetts. After school, he was a reporter at the 1902 " Attleboro Sun and Providence ." After six years he was in his hometown of its own newspaper, the " Evening Chronicle " out. For the first time, he was active in politics in 1912 when he was elected as a candidate of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, where he remained until 1914; after which he belonged until 1917 to the Massachusetts Senate.

Policy

In the elections in 1924 Martin was first elected to Massachusetts in the House of Representatives of the United States. In 1933 he became chairman of the Group of Republicans in the House and 1947 he was speaker, ie Chairman, this Parliament. After a two-year term as chairman of the Democrats took over the majority in the House of Representatives and Martin subsequently went down from his position. As a leader of the Republican faction he was still one of the most important people of the House of Representatives. After the change of government in 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States was elected president and the Republicans put back the majority in Parliament, Martin was again for a two-year term Speaker of the House. When the Republicans lost the majority in 1954 again, Martin was replaced again. Yet he remained until 1966 Member of the House of Representatives. In the 1966 election, he was in his constituency did not win the nomination against Margaret Heckler.

Martin was also a longtime member of the Republican National Committee and was that from 1940 to 1942 as Chairman before.