Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Walden, Madison Miner

Walden, Madison Miner, a Representative from Iowa; born near Scioto, Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, October 6, 1836; moved to Iowa in 1852; attended Denmark Academy, Lee County, Iowa, and Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and was graduated from Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1859; during the Civil War served in the Union Army as captain in the Sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and the Eighth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, from May 1861 to May 1865; taught school; published the Centerville (Iowa) Citizen 1865-1874; member of the State house of representatives in 1866 and 1867; served in the State senate in 1868 and 1869; Lieutenant Governor of Iowa in 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872; engaged in agricultural pursuits and coal mining in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa; was appointed chief clerk in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury in 1889 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., July 24, 1891; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Walden, Madison Miner," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1964 Original Sources, accessed August 14, 2022, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4L6RYJ7P1NVX1GD.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Walden, Madison Miner." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1964, Original Sources. 14 Aug. 2022. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4L6RYJ7P1NVX1GD.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Walden, Madison Miner' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1964. Original Sources, retrieved 14 August 2022, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4L6RYJ7P1NVX1GD.