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TheJames Madison Award is administered by theAmerican Library Association, which describes the award:

The award named for President James Madison was established in 1989 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]

• Jon Tester, 2017
• Seamus Kraft, TheOpenGov Foundation 2016
• SenatorJohn 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. CongressmanSteve 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 RepresentativesDan Burton,Henry Waxman, andLouis Stokes and Board members: HonorableJohn R. Tunheim (chair),Henry F. Graff,Kermit L. Hall,William L. Joyce andAnna 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
• TheGovernment 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 EnergyHazel O'Leary, and former ALA Washington Office DirectorEileen D. Cooke, 1994
• The legislators who led the passage of P.L. 103-40, the GPO Access Act: Vice PresidentAl Gore, original sponsor of the GPO Gateway to Government Act when he was in the Senate; SenatorsWendell Ford (D-KY) andTed Stevens (R-AK); RepresentativesCharlie Rose (D-NC) andBill Thomas (R-CA), 1993
• JournalistNina Totenberg, authorScott Armstrong, and C-SPAN founderBrian Lamb, 1992
• RepresentativeDon Edwards, 1991
• SenatorFrank Lautenberg (D-NJ), RepresentativeHenry Waxman (D-CA), journalistPhilip Shabecoff, and the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990
• SenatorPatrick Leahy, 1989

• ALA page on the award,page on past recipients.

• American Library Association awards
• Awards established in 1986
• Freedom of information in the United States

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