Edmond H. Madison
American politician
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Edmond Haggard Madison (December 18, 1865 – September 18, 1911) was a U.S. representative from Kansas.
Edmond H. Madison | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 7th district | |
| In office March 4, 1907 – September 18, 1911 | |
| Preceded by | Victor Murdock |
| Succeeded by | George A. Neeley |
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| Born | December 18, 1865 |
| Died | September 18, 1911 (aged 45) |
| Party | Republican |
Born in Plymouth, Illinois, Madison attended common schools. He taught in school. He moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1885. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1888, before commencing legal practice in Dodge City, Kansas. He served as prosecuting attorney of Ford County, Kansas 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 on September 18, 1911. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.
See also
References
- United States Congress. "Edmond H. Madison (id: M000042)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Edmond H. Madison, late a representative from Kansas, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1913
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