Madison Miner Walden

Madison Miner Walden (October 6, 1836 – July 24, 1891) was a Civil War officer, teacher, publisher, farmer, the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, and a one-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in southeastern Iowa.

Biography

Born near Brush Creek Township, Scioto County, Ohio, Walden moved to Iowa in 1852. He attended Denmark Academy in Lee County, Iowa, and Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware, Ohio, in 1859. He settled in Centerville, Iowa (in Appanoose County).

After the outbreak of the Civil War, he served in the Union Army, as captain in the 6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and the 8th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, from May 1861 to May 1865. He was taken prisoner in an engagement at Newnan, Georgia, in July 1864,^[1] known as the Battle of Brown's Mill during "McCook's Raid."^[2] He later escaped from a prison camp at Charleston, South Carolina,^[2] and returned to his company.^[3] By the end of the War he had been promoted to the rank of major.^[2]

Returning from the War, he taught school, and published the Centerville (Iowa) Citizen from 1865 to 1874. He served as member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1866 and 1867, and in the Iowa Senate, representing the 4th District, in 1868 and 1869. In 1869 he was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, starting his term in 1870.

In the 1870 Republican district convention for Iowa's 4th congressional district, Walden upset incumbent Fourth District Congressman William Loughridge in the race for the Party's nomination for Loughridge's seat.^[4] Walden won the general election,^[5] and served in the 42nd United States Congress from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. However, when Walden ran for renomination in 1872 (in what was reapportioned in 1871 as Iowa's 6th congressional district), Loughridge turned the tables on Walden, ousting Walden.^[6]

After his defeat, Walden engaged in agricultural pursuits and coal mining in Centerville. In 1890 he was again a member of the Iowa House from Appanoose County.^[1] He returned to Washington, D.C. in 1889 when he was appointed chief clerk in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and served until his death in Washington on July 24, 1891. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery in Centerville.

References

1 2 Benjamin F. Gue, "History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century," Vol. 4 (Madison M. Walden), p. 278 (1902).
1 2 3 "For Speaker," Eldora Register, 1889-12-05, at p. 2.
↑ Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1.
↑ "The Fourth District," Davenport Daily Gazette, 1870-08-20 at p. 1.
↑ Editorial, "Walden's Majority," Centerville Weekly Citizen, 1872-11-05 at p. 2.
↑ "Radical Trouble," Dubuque Herald, 1872-08-01 at p. 1.

United States Congress. "Madison Miner Walden (id: W000034)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Political offices
Preceded by John Scott	Lieutenant Governor of Iowa 1870–1871	Succeeded by Henry C. Bulis
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by William Loughridge	U.S. House of Representatives, 4th Iowa District 1871–1873	Succeeded by Henry O. Pratt

Lieutenant Governors of Iowa

Faville Rusch Needham Eastman Gue Scott Walden Bulis Dysart Newbold Campbell Manning Hull Poyneer Bestow Dungan Parrott Milliman Herriott Garst Clarke Harding Moore Hammill Kimball McFarlane Kraschel Valentine Hickenlooper Blue Evans Nicholas Elthon Nicholas McManus Mooty Fulton Jepsen Neu Branstad Anderson Zimmerman Corning Pederson Judge Reynolds

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa

1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum

2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack

3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young

4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle Le Compte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King

5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston Le Compte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King

6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy

7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle

8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven

9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey

10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist

11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell

AL	Hastings and Leffler

Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

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