Martin Barnaby Madden (March 21, 1855 – April 27, 1928) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Illinois
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. He belonged to the
Republican Party
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. As of 2020, he is the last non-
African American
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to serve as a representative for
Illinois's 1st congressional district.
Biography
Born in 1855 in
Wolviston,
County Durham
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, England, Madden immigrated to the United States in 1869 with his parents, who were born in
Ireland
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. They settled near
Lemont, Illinois. He attended public school in Chicago and graduated from Bryant and Stratton Business College in 1873. He also graduated from an engineering trade school.
Madden 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.
A member of the Republican Party, he was elected and served several years as a member of the
Chicago City Council
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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.
Gaining greater influence, he was chosen as a delegate to the
Republican National Convention
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s in
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
,
1900
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,
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
,
1916
Events
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January
* January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled.
* ...
and
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
. In 1902 he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
Fifty-eighth Congress.
Madden continued to serve in several leadership positions in business: as president of the Western Stone Co. 1895–1915. He served as a director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago 1895–1910.
Madden was elected in 1904 as a
Republican to the
Fifty-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1905, until his death. He served as chairman of the influential
Committee on Appropriations (
Sixty-eighth through
Seventieth Congresses).
After having been nominated for reelection to the
Seventy-first Congress, Madden died in 1928 at age 73 in the Committee on Appropriations meeting room of the House of Representatives in the
U.S. Capitol
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in
Washington, D.C.
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He was buried at Cass Cemetery, near
Hinsdale, Illinois, as was his wife Josephine six years later. Today Cass Cemetery is located in incorporated
Darien, Illinois.
Legacy
In 1935, the Madden Dam on the
Chagres River in the
Panama Canal
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water system was named after him, as was the reservoir behind it, Madden Lake. That was renamed by Panama as
Lake Alajuela
Lake Alajuela ( es, Lago Alajuela) is an artificial lake in the Chagres River basin. The lake is bounded by the Madden Dam and linked to the Panama Canal. Lake Alajuela serves as a reservoir for the canal, which lies to the lake's southwest.
It ...
.
Electoral history
See also
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References
External links
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1855 births
1928 deaths
People from the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees
Bryant and Stratton College alumni
Chicago City Council members
English emigrants to the United States
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
People from Lemont, Illinois