Griffiths, Martha W. (Martha Wright), 1912-2003
Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1974 and as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan from 1983 to 1991. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in Pierce City, Missouri as Martha Edna Wright, she graduated from Pierce City High School in 1930 before matriculating to the University of Missouri at Columbia, earning an AB in political science in 1934. In college she met and married Hicks G. Griffiths; the couple went on to study law at the University of Michigan, where Martha Griffiths worked on the staff of the Michigan Law Review. She graduated with an LLB in 1940 and was admitted to the bar the next year. Her first job was working in the legal department of the American Automobile Insurance Association in Detroit. During World War II, she worked as a contract negotiator in the Detroit district for Army Ordnance. In 1946 Griffiths opened her own law practice; Hicks joined a few months afterward. A year later, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams, heir of the Mennen toiletries fortune and a former college classmate, became a partner in the firm.
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