MCDADE, Joseph Michael

MCDADE, Joseph Michael
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
1931–2017

Concise Biography

MCDADE, Joseph Michael, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., September 29, 1931; attended St. Paul's School and Scranton Preparatory School; graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1953; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1956; served clerkship in office of Chief Federal Judge John W. Murphy, Middle District of Pennsylvania; engaged in the general practice of law in 1957; city solicitor of the city of Scranton in 1962; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1999); was not a candidate for reelection in 1998 to the One Hundred Sixth Congress; died on September 24, 2017, in Fairfax, Va.; interment at Rome Cemetery, Rome, N.Y.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

University of Scranton
Weinberg Memorial Library

Scranton, PA
Papers: 1963-1998, 400 cubic feet. These papers consist of legislation, correspondence, case and project files, newsletters, memorabilia, campaign materials, subject files, audio-visual materials, and other items. The collection is currently unprocessed. Due to privacy issues, portions of the collection will not be opened to the public for a number of years. Other materials will become available for research as soon as the collection is processed.

University of Virginia
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library

Charlottesville, VA
Papers: In the Hugh Scott Papers, 1925-1983, approximately 146,200 items. Other authors include Joseph Michael McDade.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: Joseph M. McDade, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972.

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