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Edward R. Madigan

Edward Rell Madigan
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24th United States Secretary of Agriculture
In office
March 8, 1991 – January 20, 1993
President George H. W. Bush
Preceded by Clayton K. Yeutter
Succeeded by Alphonso M. Espy
House Republican Chief Deputy Whip
In office
January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1989
Whip Trent Lott
Preceded by Tom Loeffler
Succeeded by Robert Smith Walker
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 15th district
In office
January 3, 1983 – March 8, 1991
Preceded by Tom Corcoran
Succeeded by Thomas W. Ewing
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 21st district
In office
January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1983
Preceded by Kenneth J. Gray
Succeeded by Melvin Price
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
In office
1967–1973
Personal details
Born (1936-01-13)January 13, 1936
Lincoln, Illinois
U.S.
Died December 7, 1994(1994-12-07) (aged 58)
Springfield, Illinois
U.S.
Resting place Holy Cross Cemetery
Lincoln, Illinois
U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Evelyn George Madigan (m. 1955 – 1994, his death)
Children Kimberly Madigan
Kellie Clapper
Mary Elizabeth Gyori
Alma mater Lincoln College (Illinois)
Religion Roman Catholic

Edward Rell (Ed) Madigan (January 13, 1936 – December 7, 1994) was a businessman and a Republican Party politician from Lincoln, Illinois. He served almost twenty years in the United States House of Representatives and was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President George H. W. Bush.

Madigan was born in Lincoln on January 13, 1936. He attended Lincoln [Junior] College before starting his own taxicab business. He entered public service as a member of the Lincoln Board of Zoning Appeals from 1965 to 1969. During that time, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives where he served from 1967 to 1973.

In November, 1972, he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives, and was subsequently elected to nine more terms. Madigan narrowly lost the race for Minority Whip in 1989 to future Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia. Madigan served in Congress from 1973 to 1991, when Clayton Keith Yeutter resigned, and Madigan was appointed Secretary of Agriculture. Serving from 1991 to 1993, Madigan was the first Roman Catholic to serve as Secretary of Agriculture.

He died of complications from lung cancer on December 7, 1994 at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois at the age of 58. He and his wife, Mrs. Evelyn M. Madigan had three daughters: (Kimberly Madigan, of Washington, D.C., Kellie Clapper, of Bloomington, Illinois and Mary Elizabeth Gyori, of Leawood, Kansas).


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