Edward H. Funston
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Edward Hogue Funston (September 16, 1836 - September 10, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near New Carlisle, Ohio, Funston attended the country schools, Lindle Hill Academy, New Carlisle, Ohio, and Marietta (Ohio) College. He taught school. During the Civil War entered the Union Army in 1861 as lieutenant, Sixteenth Ohio Battery. He participated in the principal engagements along the Mississippi River. Mustered out in 1865. Located on a prairie farm near Carlyle, Kansas, in 1867. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1873-1876, and served as speaker in 1875. He served as member of the State senate 1880-1884, and served as president pro tempore in 1880.
Funston was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dudley C. Haskell. He was reelected to the Forty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 21, 1884, to March 3, 1893. He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-first Congress). Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1893, until August 2, 1894, when he was succeeded by Horace L. Moore, who contested the election. He resumed agricultural pursuits. He died in Iola, Kansas, on September 10, 1911. He was interred in Iola Cemetery.
