Joseph A. Martin was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

 in 1924.

Biography

Joseph A. Martin was born in 1888. He was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923. He served as acting mayor in 1924 after Frank Ellsworth Doremus

Frank Ellsworth Doremus

Frank Ellsworth Doremus was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life:Doremus was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania on August 31, 1865, the son of Sylvester and Sarah Peake Doremus. The Doremus family moved to Ovid, Michigan in 1866, and then to Portland, Michigan in 1872...

 resigned for health reasons. Martin resigned to concentrate on running for mayor, but lost a three-way race to John W. Smith

John W. Smith

John W. Smith can refer to:*John Walter Smith, politician from Maryland.*John W. Smith, politician from Detroit....

 (with Charles Bowles

Charles Bowles

Charles E. Bowles was a politician from Michigan, and served as Mayor of Detroit in 1930.-Biography:Charles Bowles was born on March 24, 1884 in Yale, Michigan, the son of Alfred and Mary Lutz Bowles...

 as the write-in candidate).

Joseph A. Martin died on October 17, 1928.