Joseph Warren Madden

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American judge

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Joseph Warren Madden (January 17, 1890 – February 17, 1972) was an American lawyer , judge , civil servant, and educator. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Claims and was the first Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (serving from August 27, 1935 to August 26, 1940).

He received the Medal of Freedom in 1947.

Education and career

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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 of Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , and his J.D. 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 .

Madden was a Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law from 1914 to 1916. He was in private practice in Rockford , Illinois from 1916 to 1917. In 1917, he was appointed a Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law . 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 Pittsburgh Regional Labor Board, and a West Virginia state commission which revised and codified that state's public statutes.

NLRB service

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In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named Madden the first Chairman of the newly formed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). His name had appeared on a list developed by United States Senator Robert F. Wagner and United States Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins .

Madden supported the expanded powers of the NLRB; he had observed the operations of the labor clauses of the previously existing National Industrial Relations Act , which were often stymied by employer refusal to negotiate with union representatives who didn't work for them. He was later to say of this period, "It was all very frustrating."

During his time on the NLRB, Madden was often opposed by the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which believed that Madden was using the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; the primary federal law governing labor relations in the United States) and the procedures and staff of the NLRB to favor the AFL's primary competitor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

The NLRB and NLRA were under intense pressure from employers, the press, Congressional Republicans , and conservative Democrats . From the time it was established in August 1935, management lawyers had challenged the constitutionality of the NLRA and the authority

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