Edmond Haggard Madison (December 18, 1865 – September 18, 1911) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...
.
Born in
Plymouth, Illinois
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Geography
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, Madison attended the common schools. He taught school. He moved to
Wichita, Kansas
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, in 1885. He studied law. He was
admitted to the bar
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in 1888 and commenced the practice of his profession in
Dodge City, Kansas
Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States, named after nearby Fort Dodge. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. The city is famous in American culture for its history as a wild frontier town ...
. He served as prosecuting attorney of
Ford County, Kansas
Ford County (county code FO) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 34,287. Its county seat and most populous city is Dodge City. The county is named in honor of Colonel James Hobart Ford.
G ...
from 1889 to 1893. He was appointed judge of the thirty-first judicial district of Kansas on January 1, 1900, and served until September 17, 1906, when he resigned to become a candidate for Congress.
Madison was elected as a
Republican
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Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
to the
Sixtieth,
Sixty-first, and
Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in
Dodge City, Kansas
Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States, named after nearby Fort Dodge. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. The city is famous in American culture for its history as a wild frontier town ...
on September 18, 1911. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.
See also
*
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
*
Edmond H. Madison, late a representative from Kansas, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1913
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1865 births
1911 deaths
Kansas state court judges
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges