$171,465 and Charles Sorensen's at $166,071. Also it was reported that Ford Motor Company had only three members of the company's board of directors, Henry Ford, son Edsel Ford and Vice President Peter E Martin. By 1940 according to Nevins and Hill, Decline and Rebirth p242, Henry Ford listened only to Sorensen, P.E. Martin and Harry Bennett. Edsel, of course would get a hearing. On July 17, 1941 Peter E. Martin resigned for health reasons, and the resignation led to Charles Sorensen being named as his replacement. This was the first time Sorensen held an office of the Ford Motor Company. Notably, neither man was known to have complained of the other in over 30 years; however the more outgoing Sorensen became quite famous while Martin is little known. References Nevins, Allan; Hill, Frank Ernest (1954). Ford: The Times, The Man, The Company. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Watts, Steven (2005). The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. New York: Random House. 1944 deaths People from Chatham-Kent Ford executives 1882 births Canadian emigrants to the United States