Ray J. Madden

(1892-1987) lived in Omaha. Lawyer, politician, as U.S. Congressman from Indiana from 1943 to 1977, the longest to serve that state, he was known for supporting labor concerns and social security, worked to eliminate unfair tax advantages, and chaired a committee in 1952 that found the Soviets responsible for the massacre of Polish army officials and intellectuals during the winter of 1939-40. Consult Omaha World Herald Magazine, May 18, 1952, p. G-21 and Current Biography (1955) 405-406 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 2 (1999) 584-586.

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