Edmond Haggard Madison (December 18, 1865 – September 18, 1911) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Kansas
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.
Born in
Plymouth, Illinois
Plymouth is a village in Hancock and McDonough counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 436 at the 2020 census, down from 505 in 2010.
Geography
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, Madison attended
common schools
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. He taught in school. He moved to
Wichita, Kansas
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, in 1885. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar
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in 1888, before commencing legal practice in
Dodge City, Kansas
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. He served as prosecuting attorney of
Ford County, Kansas
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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
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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 judges
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives