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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=James Grubbs Martin
|image=James G. Martin of NC.jpg
|office=70th [[Governor]] of [[North Carolina]]
|term_start=January 5, 1985
|term_end=January 9, 1993
|predecessor=James Baxter "Jim" Hunt, Jr.
|successor=Jim Hunt
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] for North Carolina's 9th congressional district
|term_start2=January 3, 1973
|term_end2=January 3, 1985
|preceded2=Charles Raper Jonas
|succeeded2=Alex McMillan
|office3=Commissioner of Mecklenburg County
|term_start3=1967
|term_end3=1973
|birth_date=December 11, 1935
|birth_place=[[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Georgia]]
|residence=[[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlottte]], North Carolina
|alma_mater=Davidson College ([[Bachelor of Science]]<br>[[Princeton University]] ([[Ph.D.]])
|occupation=[[Professor]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Dorothy Ann "Dottie" McAulay Martin (married 1957)
|children=Three children}}
'''James Grubbs Martin''' (born December 11, 1935) is an organic chemist who served two terms from 1985 to 1993 as the 70th [[Governor]] of [[North Carolina]]. He was the third [[Republican Party|Republican]] elected to the office since [[Reconstruction]].
==Background==
Martin was born in [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Georgia]] and subsequently reared in [[South Carolina]]. In 1957, he graduated from Davidson College in Davidson in [[suburb]]an Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in organic chemistry. In 1960, he received a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Princeton University]] in Princeton, [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James G. Martin|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/2965647|title=Stereochemistry of the Diels-Alder Reaction|publisher=[[Princeton University]]|date=1960}}</ref> He then served until 1972 as an associate professor of [[chemistry]] at his alma mater, Davidson College.<ref name="Hunt papers 3" /> As a professor at Davidson, he advised the school's Young Republicans chapter.
==Political career==
In 1966, Martin was elected to the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners. He served for seven years, including two stints as the board chairman. He was a president of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners.
Martin was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1972 representing for six terms the Charlotte-based 9th congressional district. Representative Martin served on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee member and as a chairman of the House Republican Research Committee.
In 1984, with incumbent governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr., term-limited, Martin won the Republican nomination and then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Attorney General Rufus Lige Edmisten (born 1941) by a nine-point margin. In his gubernatorial campaign, Martin was helped by the successful reelection of [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] and the backing of the outgoing Democratic lieutenant governor, James Collins "Jimmy" Green (1921-2000), who had lost the gubernatorial [[primary]] to Edmisten and was popular in the eastern portion of the state which then had many [[Conservative Democrat]]s, who provided the election margins five times for [[conservative]] [[United States Senator]] [[Jesse Helms]] of [[Raleigh]]. In that same election, Republican Helms defeated a strong challenge from outgoing Governor Jim Hunt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carolinajournal.com/daily_journal/display.html?id=10552|title=Political grudges are nothing new|authoer=John Hood|publisher=John Locke Foundation: ''Carolina Journal''|date=October 11, 2013|accessdate=October 5, 2021}}</ref>
Martin promised if elected to complete Interstate 40 from the capital city of [[Raleigh]] to Wilmington on the [[Atlantic]] Coast. The highway begins in Barstow, [[California]], but had never been completed for the last hundred miles.<ref>Governor Martin and His Campaign Promise to Complete I-40 | NC DNCR (ncdcr.gov), accessed October 5, 2021.</ref>
Martin was easily reelected in 1988, when he defeated outgoing Lieutenant Governor Robert Byrd Jordan, III (1932-2020) by thirteen percentage points. In so doing, he became the only member of his party to have been elected to two terms as governor of North Carolina. And the 1968 Republican gubernatorial nominee and a former [[U.S. Representative]], [[Jim Gardner (North Carolina politician)|Jim Gardner]], was elected to serve under Martin as lieutenant governor.
==Later years==
When Martin retired from political life in 1993, he was named the chairman of the board of the James Cannon Research Center of the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. In 2012, he led an investigation into academic irregularities at the flagship [[University of North Carolina]] at Chapel Hill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/11436603/ |title=Former governor to dig deeper into UNC academics|publisher=wral.com|date=August 16, 2012|accessdate=October 5, 2021}}</ref>
In 2016, Martin endorsed the [[Moderate Republican]] Governor [[John Kasich]] of [[Ohio]] for his party's presidential nomination, which was instead won by [the insurgent [[Donald Trump]].<ref>NC's presidential endorsement list, ''Raleigh News and Observer,'' March 14, 2016; under pay wall.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:North Carolina]]
[[Category:Georgia]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Chemists]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:North Carolina Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
|name=James Grubbs Martin
|image=James G. Martin of NC.jpg
|office=70th [[Governor]] of [[North Carolina]]
|term_start=January 5, 1985
|term_end=January 9, 1993
|predecessor=James Baxter "Jim" Hunt, Jr.
|successor=Jim Hunt
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] for North Carolina's 9th congressional district
|term_start2=January 3, 1973
|term_end2=January 3, 1985
|preceded2=Charles Raper Jonas
|succeeded2=Alex McMillan
|office3=Commissioner of Mecklenburg County
|term_start3=1967
|term_end3=1973
|birth_date=December 11, 1935
|birth_place=[[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Georgia]]
|residence=[[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlottte]], North Carolina
|alma_mater=Davidson College ([[Bachelor of Science]]<br>[[Princeton University]] ([[Ph.D.]])
|occupation=[[Professor]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Dorothy Ann "Dottie" McAulay Martin (married 1957)
|children=Three children}}
'''James Grubbs Martin''' (born December 11, 1935) is an organic chemist who served two terms from 1985 to 1993 as the 70th [[Governor]] of [[North Carolina]]. He was the third [[Republican Party|Republican]] elected to the office since [[Reconstruction]].
==Background==
Martin was born in [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Georgia]] and subsequently reared in [[South Carolina]]. In 1957, he graduated from Davidson College in Davidson in [[suburb]]an Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in organic chemistry. In 1960, he received a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Princeton University]] in Princeton, [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James G. Martin|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/2965647|title=Stereochemistry of the Diels-Alder Reaction|publisher=[[Princeton University]]|date=1960}}</ref> He then served until 1972 as an associate professor of [[chemistry]] at his alma mater, Davidson College.<ref name="Hunt papers 3" /> As a professor at Davidson, he advised the school's Young Republicans chapter.
==Political career==
In 1966, Martin was elected to the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners. He served for seven years, including two stints as the board chairman. He was a president of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners.
Martin was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1972 representing for six terms the Charlotte-based 9th congressional district. Representative Martin served on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee member and as a chairman of the House Republican Research Committee.
In 1984, with incumbent governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr., term-limited, Martin won the Republican nomination and then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Attorney General Rufus Lige Edmisten (born 1941) by a nine-point margin. In his gubernatorial campaign, Martin was helped by the successful reelection of [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] and the backing of the outgoing Democratic lieutenant governor, James Collins "Jimmy" Green (1921-2000), who had lost the gubernatorial [[primary]] to Edmisten and was popular in the eastern portion of the state which then had many [[Conservative Democrat]]s, who provided the election margins five times for [[conservative]] [[United States Senator]] [[Jesse Helms]] of [[Raleigh]]. In that same election, Republican Helms defeated a strong challenge from outgoing Governor Jim Hunt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carolinajournal.com/daily_journal/display.html?id=10552|title=Political grudges are nothing new|authoer=John Hood|publisher=John Locke Foundation: ''Carolina Journal''|date=October 11, 2013|accessdate=October 5, 2021}}</ref>
Martin promised if elected to complete Interstate 40 from the capital city of [[Raleigh]] to Wilmington on the [[Atlantic]] Coast. The highway begins in Barstow, [[California]], but had never been completed for the last hundred miles.<ref>Governor Martin and His Campaign Promise to Complete I-40 | NC DNCR (ncdcr.gov), accessed October 5, 2021.</ref>
Martin was easily reelected in 1988, when he defeated outgoing Lieutenant Governor Robert Byrd Jordan, III (1932-2020) by thirteen percentage points. In so doing, he became the only member of his party to have been elected to two terms as governor of North Carolina. And the 1968 Republican gubernatorial nominee and a former [[U.S. Representative]], [[Jim Gardner (North Carolina politician)|Jim Gardner]], was elected to serve under Martin as lieutenant governor.
==Later years==
When Martin retired from political life in 1993, he was named the chairman of the board of the James Cannon Research Center of the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. In 2012, he led an investigation into academic irregularities at the flagship [[University of North Carolina]] at Chapel Hill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/11436603/ |title=Former governor to dig deeper into UNC academics|publisher=wral.com|date=August 16, 2012|accessdate=October 5, 2021}}</ref>
In 2016, Martin endorsed the [[Moderate Republican]] Governor [[John Kasich]] of [[Ohio]] for his party's presidential nomination, which was instead won by [the insurgent [[Donald Trump]].<ref>NC's presidential endorsement list, ''Raleigh News and Observer,'' March 14, 2016; under pay wall.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, James Grubbs}}
[[Category:North Carolina]]
[[Category:Georgia]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Chemists]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:North Carolina Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]