Madison Business College was the name of a business college in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 1858.
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History
The college was also known as Northwestern Business College and School of Shorthand, Capital City Commercial College, Madison College, Madison Junior College, and Madison Junior Business College; it closed on September 22, 1998.
Steiger's Educational Directory for 1878 classified it as, "Institute of Penmanship and Telegraph; Classical, Scientific and Musical Academy". In the mid-1880s, it issued at least two copies of a magazine named The School Visitor.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni include:
Liberian President and Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Wisconsin governor Albert G. Schmedeman
Wisconsin Secretary of State and legislator John S. Donald
State Treasurer, and Assemblyman Andrew H. Dahl
State Senator Albert M. Stondall
State Assemblyman D. D. Conway
State Assemblyman Joanne M. Duren
State Assemblyman Hugh Pierce Jamieson
State Assemblyman Daniel O. Mahoney
State Assemblyman Edward C. Meland
State Assemblyman Herbert C. Schenk
State Assemblyman Thomas A. Stewart
C. L. Brusletten, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
George B. Curtiss, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York
Charles S. Eastman, a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives
Leo Kieffer, Maine State Senator