Edward H. Funston

Edward H. Funston, Congressman from Kansas

Edward Hogue Funston (September 16, 1836 – September 10, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Biography

Funston was born near New Carlisle, Ohio and attended the country schools, Linden Hill Academy in Carlisle, and Marietta College.

He taught school for a while and then during the Civil War entered the Union Army in 1861 as lieutenant, Sixteenth Ohio Battery. He participated in the principal engagements along the Mississippi River and mustered out in 1865.

He moved to a farm in Carlyle, Kansas in 1867. Funston served as member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1873–1876) and was Speaker in 1875. He served in the Kansas Senate (1880–1884), and was Senate President in 1880.

Funston was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dudley C. Haskell. He was reelected to the Forty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 21, 1884, to March 3, 1893. He served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee (Fifty-first Congress).

He presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1893, until August 2, 1894, when he was succeeded by Horace L. Moore, who contested the election. He resumed agricultural pursuits.

He was the father of Medal of Honor recipient, Frederick Funston.

He died at his home in Iola, Kansas, on September 10, 1911^[1] and was interred in Iola Cemetery.

Notes

1. Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. Standard Publishing Company. p. 703.

References

• Edward H. Funston at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-10-10
• Edward H. Funston at Find a Grave

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