Talk:Edwin W. Martin Jr.

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --EdMartin (talk) 22:53, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

There are several Edwin Martin's listed, and two have been U.S. Assistant Secretaries. The two actually overlapped in Washington and actually received the wrong bank statement as both opened accounts at the same branch. Edwin W. Martin was a career diplomat, and served as Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs. Dr. Edwin W. Martin, a career Education executive, was the first Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the nation's history. Although the item does not mention it, he was cited twice for "visionary leadership" by the Departments of Health Education and Welfare (under the Johnson administration) and the Department of Education in the Reagan Administration. He was the primary architect of federal special education policy and received the nation's highest awards for education of the disabled, the J.E. Wallace Wallin Award, from the Council for Exceptional Children, and the Alexander Graham Bell award, among others.

One kind of source if you wish, are the statements recognizing his accomplishments by the three colleges which awarded him honorary doctorates. It would take a bit of time to recover them. Emerson College, Boston, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. and C.W. Post College, Long Island, NY. Another possible source, if atypical, are quotes from distinguished professors on his work, published on "Breakthrough; etc.

Ed Martin, Jr. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EdMartin (talk • contribs) 23:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)