Edward Rell Madigan

Edward Rell Madigan (* January 13, 1936 in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois; ibid. † December 7, 1994 ) was an American politician ( Republican).

After attending junior college in his hometown of Lincoln Madigan is built on a private taxi companies. His first public office he took as a member of the municipal authority for building applications, to which he belonged from 1965 to 1969.

During this time he became politically active for the first time. In 1967 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois, where he remained until 1973. After he had in 1972 won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, he moved the following year to Washington. In Congress he was after nine times re-election until 1991. Doing so, he lost the 1989 election to the Republican Whip minority faction against Newt Gingrich.

On March 8, 1991 Madigan resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, as U.S. President George Bush appointed him as agriculture minister in his cabinet. He held until Bush had left the White House after a lost re-election this post.

Edward Madigan died in 1994 from lung cancer. The following year, the Rail Splitter State Park, a state park south of Lincoln, was renamed in his honor in Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area.