Martin B. Madden
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Martin Barnaby Madden (March 21, 1855 - April 27, 1928) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Wolviston, England, Madden immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Chicago, Illinois, in 1860. He attended the public schools in Chicago and was graduated from Bryant and Stratton Business College in 1873. He was also graduated from an engineering trade school. He served as president of the Quarry Owners' Association of the United States 1885-1889. He served as vice president and director of the Builders and Traders' Exchange of Chicago in 1886 and 1887. He served as member of the Chicago City Council 1889-1897. He served as presiding officer of that body 1891-1893 and chairman of the finance committee for seven years. He served as chairman of the Republican committee of Chicago 1890-1896. He served as president of the Western Stone Co. 1895-1915. He served as director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago 1895-1910. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1896, 1900, 1912, 1916 and 1924. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Madden was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1905 until his death. He served as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses). After having been nominated for reelection to the Seventy-first Congress, he died in the room of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. at age 73. He was interred in Fairview Cemetery, near Hinsdale, Illinois.
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| Preceded by Martin Emerich |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 1st congressional district 1905-1928 |
Succeeded by Oscar S. De Priest |
