Edward Hogue Funston (September 16, 1836 – September 10, 1911) was an American politician who was a

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from

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. He was the father of general

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Biography

Funston was born near

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on September 16, 1836. He attended the country schools of New Carlisle, then Linden Hill Academy in New Carlisle and

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in Ohio. He taught school, and during the

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, entered the Union Army in 1861 as

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in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery. He participated in the principal engagements along the

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and mustered out in 1865. He moved to a farm in

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in 1867. Funston served as member of the

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(1873–1876) and was

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in 1875. He served in the

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(1880–1884), and was

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in 1880. Funston was elected as a Republican to the 48th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dudley C. Haskell. He was reelected to the 49th and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 21, 1884, to March 3, 1893. He served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee ( Fifty-first Congress). He presented credentials as a Member-elect to the

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Congress and served from March 4, 1893, until August 2, 1894, when he was succeeded by Horace L. Moore, who successfully contested the election. After leaving Congress, Funston returned to his Kansas farm. He died at his home in

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

Family

In 1861, Funston married 18-year-old Ann Eliza Mitchell of West Charleston, Ohio; she was a cousin of his Civil War battery commander and a great-grandniece of

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. Their children included:

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; James Burton; Pogue Warwick; Ella (Eckdall); Aldo; and Edward H. Jr. They were also the parents of two other children, a boy and a girl, who died in infancy.

went on to become a major general in the

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and was a recipient of the

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