Martin B. Madden
Martin Barnaby Madden ( born March 21, 1855 in Wolviston, County Durham, England; † April 27, 1928 in Washington, DC ) was a British -born American entrepreneur and politician of the Republican Party of the State of Illinois for 23 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing.
Life
Madden, who was in 1860 immigrated with his parents to the United States, attended public schools in Chicago and graduated in 1873 from Bryant & Stratton Business College. After a visit to an engineering trade school, he became an entrepreneur and was 1885-1889 President of the American Association of quarry owners and 1886 and 1887 Vice President and Director of Building and Trade Chicago Board of Trade ( Builders and Traders ' Exchange of Chicago).
After that, he began his political career in local politics and was 1889-1897 Member of the City Council of Chicago and at this time not only seven years as chairman of the Finance Committee, but also from 1891 to 1893 president of the city council. 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 remained in this position until 1915 and was next to it at the same time 1895-1910 Director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. He also continued his political activity continued in the Republican Party and was a delegate to the 1896 and 1900 Republican National Conventions.
After the first unsuccessful candidate in the congressional elections in 1902 for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was first elected in the midterm elections in 1904 a member of the House of Representatives and represented there after several re- elections of March 4, 1905 until his death, as the successor of Democrats Martin Emerich the first congressional District of Illinois.
During his long parliamentary membership Madden, the 1912, 1916 and 1924 was a delegate at the Republican National Convention, in addition, from March 1928 until his death chairman of the influential Committee on Investments ( House Committee on Appropriations ) and died in the premises of this committee was in the Washington Capitol. After his death he was buried in the Fairview Cemetery in Hinsdale.
According to Martin Madden in 1935, completed in the Panama Canal Zone Madden Dam was named.