Martin, Paul Joseph James

Martin, Paul Joseph James

▪ Canadian politician and diplomat
born June 23, 1903, Ottawa, Ont., Can.
died Sept. 14, 1992, Windsor, Ont.

      Canadian politician and diplomat who served with distinction in the cabinets of four Liberal Party prime ministers: W.L. Mackenzie King, Louis Saint Laurent, Lester B. Pearson, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. As minister of national health and welfare (1946–57), Martin was instrumental in writing much of Canada's social legislation.

      Martin, who recovered after being stricken with polio at the age of four, attended the University of Toronto, Harvard Law School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the School of International Studies in Geneva. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1935, and until 1968 he represented the Windsor riding of Essex East. He was appointed parliamentary assistant to the minister of labour (1943) and he joined the cabinet as secretary of state (1945).

      As minister of national health and welfare, Martin guided important legislation through Parliament, including the National Health Program (1948), the federal Old Age Security Act (1951), and the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (1957). He ordered the manufacture of vast quantities of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Edward Salk, so that when it was approved safe for distribution, Canadians could be quickly vaccinated. A skilled diplomat, Martin was a delegate to the League of Nations in the 1930s, the principal architect of an expanded United Nations membership plan (1955), minister of external affairs (1963–68), and high commissioner to Britain (1974–79). His memoirs, A Very Public Life, were published in two volumes (1983 and 1985). His son, Paul Martin (Martin, Paul), also an active Liberal, served as prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006.

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