Ray Madden
U.S. Congressperson
1892 – 1987
Who was Ray Madden?
Ray John Madden was a United States Representative from Indiana. He was born in Waseca, Minnesota. He attended the public schools and Sacred Heart Academy in his native city. He graduated from the law department of Creighton University with an LL.B. in 1913 and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebraska.
Madden was elected as a municipal judge in Omaha in 1916. He resigned during the First World War to serve in the United States Navy. After the war, he was engaged in the practice of law in Gary, Indiana. He was the city comptroller of Gary from 1935-1938 and the treasurer of Lake County, Indiana from 1938-1942. He was a delegate to every Democratic National Convention from 1940 through 1968.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses. While in Congress, he served as a co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Organization of Congress, and chairman of the Committee on Rules. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress. He was a chairman of the Madden Committee.
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1892
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Creighton University
- Lived in
- Gary
- Minnesota
- Omaha
- Washington, D.C.
- Indiana
- Died
- Sep 28, 1987
Washington, D.C. - Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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