Christian M. Madsen | |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1869 |
Birth Place: | Gammelby, Thy, Denmark |
Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
Resting Place: | Acacia Park Cemetery |
Occupation: | Painter, decorator, politician |
Party: | Socialist |
Office: | Member of the Illinois House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 1913 |
Term End: | 1917 |
Christian M. Madsen (1869–1953) was an American politician who served as a Socialist member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1913 to 1917.
Madsen was born in Gammelby, Thy, Denmark on September 5, 1869.[1] He was educated at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He immigrated to the United States in 1892, settling in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. A painter and decorator by trade, he served as secretary of the largest local union of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers in America, Local Union No. 194.[2]
In the 1912 general election for the Illinois House of Representatives, four socialists were elected and three were seated. The other seated socialists were Joseph Mason and Seymour Stedman.[3] In 1914, Mason was reelected to a second and final term.[4]
He died at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago in late June 1953, and was buried at Acacia Park Cemetery.[1] [5]