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Edmond Haggard Madison (December 18, 1865 – September 18, 1911) was a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
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 the ...
. Born in
Plymouth, Illinois Plymouth is a village in Hancock and McDonough counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 505 at the 2010 census, down from 562 at the 2000 census. Geography Plymouth is located in southeastern Hancock County at . A small portion of th ...
, Madison attended the common schools. He taught school. He moved to
Wichita, Kansas Wichita ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had ...
, in 1885. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced the practice of his profession in Dodge City, Kansas. 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 to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Dodge City, Kansas on September 18, 1911. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.


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Edmond H. Madison, late a representative from Kansas, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1913
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