James Madison Award

Not to be confused with the James Madison Freedom of Information Award

The James Madison Award is administered by the American Library Association, which describes the award:

The award named for President James Madison was established in 1986 and is presented annually on the anniversary of his birth to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public’s right to know at the national level.^[1]

Recipients

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), 2015
President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, 2014
Aaron Swartz, 2013 (posthumously) ^[2]
Zoe Lofgren, 2012
Patrice McDermott, 2011
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), 2010 - Co-Winner
Meredith Fuchs, 2010
Thomas M. Susman, 2009
Russ Feingold, 2008
Paul K. McMasters, 2007
Steve Aftergood, 2006
Richard M. Schmidt, 2005
David Sobel, 2004 ^[3]
Former U.S. Congressman Steve Horn; Government of Arlington County (VA), 2003
Steven Garfinkel, retired director of the Information Security Oversight Office; John E. Moss the author of the Freedom of Information Act (awarded posthumously) 2002
John D. Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff, 2001
Larry Irving, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, 2000
Board members and congressional sponsors of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, including former Senator John Glenn and Representatives Dan Burton, Henry Waxman, and Louis Stokes and Board members: Honorable John R. Tunheim (chair), Henry F. Graff, Kermit L. Hall, William L. Joyce and Anna Kasten Nelson. 1999
Ben Bagdikian, journalist, Wayne P. Kelley, former Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office, Eliot Christian and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine. 1998
George Soros, philanthropist and financier, 1997
The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, 1996
The Government Printing Office, the State of Maryland's Sailor Project, the Seattle (WA) Public Library, and the Internet Multicasting Service's Town Hall Project, 1995
Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary, and former ALA Washington Office Director Eileen D. Cooke, 1994
The legislators who led the passage of P.L. 103-40, the GPO Access Act: Vice President Al Gore, original sponsor of the GPO Gateway to Government Act when he was in the Senate; Senators Wendell Ford (D-KY) and Ted Stevens (R-AK); Representatives Charlie Rose (D-NC) and Bill Thomas (R-CA), 1993
Journalist Nina Totenberg, author Scott Armstrong, and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, 1992
Representative Don Edwards, 1991
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), journalist Philip Shabecoff, and the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990
Senator Patrick Leahy, 1989

External links

ALA page on the award, page on past recipients.

References

↑ American Library Association, "James Madison Award".
↑ Julie Bort, "The American Library Association Has Given Aaron Swartz Its First Ever Posthumous Award", Business Insider (March 15, 2013).
↑ American Library Association, "James Madison Award: All Years" (last visited May 15, 2013).

James Madison

4th President of the United States (1809–1817) 5th U.S. Secretary of State (1801–1809) United States House of Representatives (1789–1797) Congress of the Confederation (1781–1783) Virginia House of Delegates (1776–1779, 1784–1786)

"Father of the Constitution"	Co-wrote, 1776 Virginia Constitution 1786 Annapolis Convention 1787 Constitutional Convention Virginia Plan Constitution of the United States Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 The Federalist Papers written by Madison No. 10 No. 51 Virginia Ratifying Convention United States Bill of Rights 27th amendment Constitution drafting and ratification timeline Founding Fathers

Presidency	First inauguration Second inauguration Tecumseh's War Battle of Tippecanoe War of 1812 origins Burning of Washington The Octagon House Treaty of Ghent Seven Buildings residence results Second Barbary War Era of Good Feelings Second Bank of the United States State of the Union Address (1810 1814 1815 1816) Cabinet Federal judiciary appointments

Other noted accomplisments	Supervised the Louisiana Purchase Anti-Administration party Residence Act Compromise of 1790 Democratic-Republican Party First Party System republicanism Library of Congress Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Report of 1800

Other writings	The Papers of James Madison

Life	Early life and career Belle Grove Plantation, birthplace Montpelier

Elections	U.S. House of Representatives election, 1789 1790 1792 1794 U.S. presidential election, 1808 1812

Legacy and popular culture	James Madison Memorial Building James Madison University James Madison College Madison, Wisconsin Madison Square Madison River Madison Street U.S. postage stamps James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation James Madison Freedom of Information Award James Madison Award James Madison Institute A More Perfect Union (1989 film) Liberty's Kids (2002 miniseries)

Related	Age of Enlightenment American Enlightenment Marbury v. Madison National Gazette Paul Jennings Madisonian Model American Philosophical Society The American Museum magazine Virginia dynasty

Family	Dolley Madison (wife) John Payne Todd (stepson) James Madison, Sr. (father) Nelly Conway Madison (mother) Ambrose Madison (paternal grandfather) James Madison (cousin) George Madison (paternal second-cousin) Thomas Madison (paternal second-cousin) John Madison (great-grandfather) Lucy Washington (sister-in-law)

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