MARTIN JOSEPH WILLIAM JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110067-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 67
• Content Type: BIO

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XL'? RTIN, JOSEPH WILLIAM, JR. , Republican, of North Attleboro,
Mass.; born November 3, 1884; educated in the public schools
of North Attleboro; honorary degrees: L.L. D. , Tufts College,
Medford, Mass. ; LL. D. , Pennsylvania Military College,
Chester, Pa.; D. C. L., Boston University, Boston, Mass.;
LL. D. , Stonehill College, North Easton, Mass.; LL. D. ,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.; LL. D. , Syracuse
University, Syracuse, N. Y. ; master of science, Bradford
Durfee Technical Institute, Fall River, Mass.; M. S. B. A. ,
Bryant College, Providence, R.I.; publisher of Evening
Chronicle, North Attleboro, and Franklin Sentinel, Franklin,
Mass.; member Massachusetts House of Representatives,
1912-1914; member Massachusetts State Senate, 1914-17;
chairman, Massachusetts Street Railway Investigating
Committee, 1917; chairman, Massachusetts Republican
Legislative Campaign Committee, 1917; Harding-Coolidge
presidential elector, 1920; executive secretary, Republican
State committee, 1922-25; delegate to Republican National
Conventions of 1916, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952;
permanent chairman of the Republican National Conventions
of 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; chairman, Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee in 1938; member of the
Republican National Committee, 1936-40; chairman, Republican
National Committee from July 1940 to November 1942; in
1924 elected Member of the Sixty-ninth and each succeeding
Congress, including the Eighty-fifth; elected minority leader
Seventy-sixth and each succeeding Congress except in the
Eightieth and Eighty-third, in which he was elected Speaker.
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