of Command Counsel Newsletter (U.S. Army Material Command, Office of the Command Counsel, Ft. Belvoir, Va.), Dec. 1999, at 52–53. Death McDade died on September 24, 2017 in Fairfax, Virginia. Places named for McDade McDade Park – The Lackawanna Valley was scarred by coal mine surface "strippings", and one such surface mine was the Old Continental in the Keyser Valley. Congressman McDade secured funding and support to reclaim the Old Continental strip mine and convert it to a recreational park. The park has served as an environmental laboratory to learn more about how such reclamation work could be done. In 1978, McDade Park was dedicated and became the flagship of the Lackawana County's park system. McDade Airport Terminal – In 2006 the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport Terminal building was named in honor of Congressman McDade. Congressman McDade's father played a key role in helping the Airport open. specifically, in 1941, John B. McDade, the congressman's father and president of the Heidelberg Coal Co., donated (0.49 km2) on which part of the Airport now sits. John B. McDade donated this land to "help the national defense in time of war." Thanks to land donated by John McDade, and purchased from others, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport opened June 1, 1947. In the 1990s the Airport infrastructure needed updating. Congressman McDade secured federal budgets and grants to accomplish this task. University of Scranton McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts – The University of Scranton honored Congressman McDade by naming its Center for Literary and Performing Arts after him and by creating the McDade Center for Technology Transfer. McDade Trail References The Political Graveyard Voting Record from the Library of Congress External links Photo of Congressman Joseph McDade |- 1931 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians Pennsylvania lawyers People acquitted of corruption People from Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania People with Parkinson's disease Politicians from Scranton, Pennsylvania University of Notre Dame alumni University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Members of Congress who became lobbyists