[2] Martin started his academic career at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, as an Instructor in Government in 1926.
[1][2] Martin became the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama (UA) in 1938.
The following year, in 1946, Martin secured a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and persuaded V. O.
[3] Additionally, Martin strengthened links between UA and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and edited TVA: The First Twenty Years, published by the University of Alabama Press in 1956.
[4] Meanwhile, Martin served as the President of the Southern Political Science Association in 1942.