Harold Martin (New Jersey politician)

Harold Martin (February 25, 1918 – October 19, 2010) was an American Democratic Party politician who served a single term on the Bergen County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders and was elected to three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 39th Legislative District.

Martin was born in West New York, New Jersey and moved with his family as a child to Brooklyn where he attended New Utrecht High School. He attended both the University of Missouri and the University of Arizona, before attending Rutgers University where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees with majors in political science and economics. He later took courses in government at the New School for Social Research. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943, where he ultimately achieved the rank of second lieutenant, serving in counterintelligence and in the design of amphibious assault vehicles.

After completing his military service, Martin worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as an editor for the Shell Oil Company. He worked as a sales representative selling electronics and spent two years on Wall Street as an account executive at Shearson, Hammill & Co. He started attending council meetings in his hometown of Cresskill, New Jersey and was chosen for a seat on the borough's planning board in addition to being chosen to serve on the Bergen County Planning Board. Harold Martin has four children and eight grandchildren.

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