Background
Edward Hogue Funston was born on September 16, 1836 in New Carlisle, Ohio, United States. He was a son of Frederick and Julia (Stafford) Funston.
Edward Hogue Funston was born on September 16, 1836 in New Carlisle, Ohio, United States. He was a son of Frederick and Julia (Stafford) Funston.
He attended the country schools, Linden Hill Academy in Carlisle, and Marietta College.
He taught school for a while and then 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 and mustered out in 1865. He moved to a farm in Carlyle, Kansas in 1867. 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 contested the election. He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He was married to Ann Eliza Mitchell.