Martin B. Madden

Martin B. Madden

Martin Barnaby Madden (* 21st March 1855 in Wolviston , County Durham , England ; † 27. April 1928 in Washington, DC ) was a British-born American businessman and politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Illinois for 23 years in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Madden, who immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1860 , attended public schools in Chicago and graduated from Bryant & Stratton Business College in 1873 . After attending an engineering business school, he became an entrepreneur and was President of the United States 'Association of Quarry Owners from 1885 to 1889, and Vice President and Director of the Builders and Traders' Exchange of Chicago in 1886 and 1887 .

He then began his political career in local politics and was a member of the Chicago City Council from 1889 to 1897 and during this time not only chaired its finance committee for seven years, but also president of the city council from 1891 to 1893. At the same time he was from 1890 to 1896 chairman of the Committee of the Republican Party of Chicago.

In 1895 he became President of the Western Stone Co. and held this position until 1915 and was also director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago between 1895 and 1910 . In addition, he continued his political activities in the Republican Party and was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1896 and 1900 .

After he ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives for the first time unsuccessfully in the 1902 congressional elections, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the 1904 congressional elections and represented there after several re-elections from March 4, 1905 until his death as successor to the Democrat Martin Emerich created the first congressional constituency of Illinois.

During his long membership in parliament, Madden, who was again a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1912, 1916 and 1924, was also chairman of the influential House Committee on Appropriations from March 1928 until his death and died on the premises of this committee in the Washington Capitol . After his death he was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Hinsdale .

The Madden Dam , completed in the Panama Canal Zone in 1935, was named after Martin Madden .

Background literature

• Thomas Robert Bullard: From Businessman to Congressman: The Careers of Martin B. Madden. Dissertation ( Ph.D ), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1973.

Web links

• Martin B. Madden in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)