Martha W. Griffiths

A Representative from Michigan. Born Martha Edna Wright, January 29, 1912, Pierce City, Lawrence County, Mo. Attended the public schools. B. A. , University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. , 1934. Graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich. , 1940. Lawyer, private practice. Legal department, American Automobile Insurance Co. , 1941-1942. Detroit, Mich. , Ordnance District contract negotiator, 1942-1946. Elected to the Michigan state house of representatives, 1948-1952. Appointed as recorder and judge of Recorders Court in Detroit, 1953. Elected as judge, 1953-1954. Delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956 and 1968. Unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-third Congress in 1952. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-December 31, 1974). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974. Lieutenant governor of Michigan, 1982-1991. Died on April 22, 2003, in Amarda, Mich.