He attended public school in Chicago and graduated from Bryant and Stratton Business College in 1873.

Madden continued to serve in several leadership positions in business: as president of the Western Stone Co. 1895–1915.

Madden was elected in 1904 as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1905, until his death.

After having been nominated for reelection to the Seventy-first Congress, Madden died in 1928 at age 73 in the Committee on Appropriations meeting room of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress