Graham Martin succeeded Ellsworth Bunker as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam in 1973. He would be the last person to hold that position. Martin, along with the last remaining Americans, was evacuated by helicopter from Saigon as Communist forces overran the city in April, 1975.
MartinMartin may have been the son of the governor or he may have been his brother, but without any doubt he was the father of Jane Martin, his first child, who married John Martin, the Emigrant.
MartinMartin drew land in Screven County (St. Philip's Parish) as late as 1794, was a commissioner of the county and located the sites of public buildings in several counties.
Thomas Coskery, of Augusta, son-in-law of Angus Martin, in his petition to the Court of Richmond County states "That the heirs at law of the said Margaret Martin are the descendants of her uncles, Alexander, William and Daniel Martin." Alexander's descendants seem to have migrated to Atlanta and Montgomery.
The teacher, critic and editor Professor GrahamMartin, who has died aged 76, was, until his retirement in 1992, head of the Open University's literature department.
Graham seemed to us other undergraduates to have acquired a knowledge and a maturity that made him a person of quiet authority and wisdom, and he was already close to the handful of figures who represented this critical tradition in Oxford - a distinctly minority affair, at odds with the prevailing belletrism.
Graham spent the rest of his career at the OU, to which he was attached by convictions and commitments much broader than the purely academic or pedagogic.
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