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MADDEN, Martin Barnaby, a Representative from Illinois; born in Wolviston, England, March 21, 1855;
immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Chicago, Ill., in 1860; attended the
public schools in Chicago and was graduated from Bryant and Stratton Business College in 1873; was
also graduated from an engineering trade school; president of the Quarry Owners Association of the
United States 1885-1889; vice president and director of the Builders and Traders Exchange of
Chicago in 1886 and 1887; member of the Chicago City Council 1889-1897; served as presiding
officer of that body 1891-1893 and chairman of the finance committee for seven years; chairman of the
Republican committee of Chicago 1890-1896; president of the Western Stone Co. 1895-1915;
director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago 1895-1910; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1896, 1900, 1912, 1916 and 1924; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the
eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1905, until his death; chairman, Committee
on Appropriations (Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses); had been nominated for reelection to
the Seventy-first Congress; died in the room of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1928; interment in Fairview Cemetery,
near Hinsdale, Du Page County, Ill.
BibliographyBullard, Thomas Robert. From Businessman to
Congressman: The Careers of Martin B. Madden. Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Chicago
Circle, 1973.
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