J. Warren Madden
| Joseph Warren Madden | |
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J. Warren Madden at his desk at the NLRB, June 1937
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January 17, 1890 Damascus, Waddams Township, Stephenson County, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | February 17, 1972 (aged 82) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Lawyer; federal government employee; federal judge |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret L. Madden |
| Children | Four children |
J. Warren Madden, born Joseph Warren Madden, (January 17, 1890 – February 17, 1972) was an American lawyer, judge, civil servant, and educator. He served on the United States Court of Claims and was the first Chair of the National Labor Relations Board (serving from 1935 to 1940). He received the Medal of Freedom in 1947.
Joseph Warren Madden was born in the unincorporated town of Damascus in Waddams Township, Illinois, on January 17, 1890. His father was a somewhat wealthy farmer. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois, and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1914. His legal specialties were domestic relations, property law, and torts, and he had no background in labor law.
He entered private practice. He left his practice to teach law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and in 1917 he was appointed a professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. He was a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, Stanford Law School, and Cornell Law School. He briefly served as a special assistant in the office of the United States Attorney General in Washington, D.C., in 1920. A rising star in legal education circles, he also served briefly as Dean of the West Virginia University College of Law before being added to the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1927. During this time, he served on several federal commissions, including an arbitration panel which settled a strike by 1,800 streetcar conductors in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1934. He also served on Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot's Commission on Special Planning in Industry, the Pittsburg Regional Labor Board, and a West Virginia state commission which revised and codified that state's public statutes.
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