Edward Hogue Funston was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kansas

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Biography

Funston was born near New Carlisle, Ohio

New Carlisle, Ohio

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 and attended the country schools, Linden Hill Academy in Carlisle, and Marietta (Ohio) College.

He taught school for a while and then during the Civil War

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 entered the Union Army

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 in 1861 as lieutenant, Sixteenth Ohio Battery.

He participated in the principal engagements along the Mississippi River and mustered out in 1865.

He served as member of the State house of representatives 1873-1876, as speaker in 1875 and as member of the State senate 1880-1884, and served as president pro tempore in 1880.

Funston was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dudley C. Haskell.

He was reelected to the Forty-ninth

49th United States Congress

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 and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 21, 1884, to March 3, 1893.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-first

51st United States Congress

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 Congress).

Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-third

53rd United States Congress

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 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

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 recipient, Frederick Funston

Frederick Funston

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He died in Iola, Kansas

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, on September 10, 1911 and was interred in Iola Cemetery.