Edward H. Funston Explained

Edward Hogue Funston
Birth Date:16 September 1836
Birth Place:New Carlisle, Ohio, U.S.
Death Place:Iola, Kansas, U.S.
Resting Place:Iola Cemetery, Iola, Kansas, U.S.
State:Kansas
District:2nd
Term Start:March 21, 1884
Term End:August 2, 1894
Predecessor:Dudley C. Haskell
Successor:Horace L. Moore
Office2:Member of the Kansas Senate
Term2:1880-1884
Office3:Member of the Kansas House of Representatives
Term3:1873-1876
Party:Republican
Allegiance: Union
Branch: United States Army Union Army
Serviceyears:1861–1865
Rank: 1st Lieutenant
Unit:16th Ohio Battery

Edward Hogue Funston (September 16, 1836  - September 10, 1911) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. He was the father of general Frederick Funston.

Biography

Funston was born near New Carlisle, Ohio on September 16, 1836. He attended the country schools of New Carlisle, then Linden Hill Academy in New Carlisle and Marietta College in Ohio.

He taught school, and during the Civil War entered the Union Army in 1861 as lieutenant in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery. He participated in the principal engagements along the Mississippi River and mustered out in 1865.

He moved to a farm in Carlyle, Kansas in 1867. Funston served as member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1873 - 1876) and was Speaker in 1875. He served in the Kansas Senate (1880 - 1884), and was Senate President 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 Agriculture Committee (Fifty-first Congress).

He 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 successfully contested the election. After leaving Congress, Funston returned to his Kansas farm.

He died at his home in Iola, Kansas, 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 Daniel Boone. Their children included: Frederick; 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.

Frederick Funston went on to become a major general in the United States Army and was a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

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