Joseph William Martin, Jr.
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Joseph William Martin, Jr (November 3, 1884 - March 6, 1968) was an American politician from North Attleborough, Massachusetts.
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[edit] Political career
Martin was a member of the Republican Party and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1912-1914), Massachusetts Senate (1914-1917) and the United States House of Representatives (1925-1967). He also was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1940 to 1942.
In 1960 McGraw-Hill published My First Fifty Years in Politics, by Joe Martin as told to Robert J. Donovan.
[edit] Leadership
He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives on two separate occasions from 1947 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1955. These terms represented two Republican short-term majorities in the House, and Martin's two terms were both bookended by Sam Rayburn (D-TX).
Following dramatic Republican losses in the 1958 election cycle, which placed a return to majority status out of reach (for 36 more years, as it turned out, until the 1994 Republican Revolution), Martin was ousted from the leadership by Charles A. Halleck of Indiana. In spite of this humiliation, Martin chose to remain as a backbench member of the House, but was ousted from his seat in the 1966 Republican primary by Margaret Heckler.
[edit] After Congress
He lost renomination in 1966. He died in Hollywood, Florida on March 6, 1968.
[edit] Legacy
Today in his hometown of North Attleborough, Massachusetts Martin is remembered in the name of one of six local elementary schools. The Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Elementary School bears his name.
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