Edmond H. Madison

Edmond H. Madison, Kansas Congressman

Edmond Haggard Madison (December 18, 1865 – September 18, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born in Plymouth, Illinois, Madison attended the common schools. He taught school. He moved to Wichita, Kansas, 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 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, September 18, 1911. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Victor Murdock		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 7th congressional district
March 4, 1907–September 18, 1911 		Succeeded by
George Neeley
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