Edmond H. Madison
American politician
Edmond Haggard Madison (December 18, 1865, September 18, 1911) was a U.S. representative from Kansas.
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.
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