Earl Hanley Beshlin

Earl Hanley Beshlin

Earl Hanley Beshlin (born April 28, 1870 in Conewango , Warren County , Pennsylvania , †  July 12, 1971 in Warren , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1919 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Earl Beshlin attended Warren High School . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1906 and 1906 he was an elected district councilor ( Elected Burgess ) in Warren County; from 1914 to 1918 he served there as a public prosecutor. Beshlin was also a proponent of prohibition .

Following the resignation of Republican MP Orrin Dubbs Bleakley , he was elected as a joint Democratic and Prohibition Party candidate in the due by-election for the 28th Pennsylvania seat as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he was elected on March 6. November 1917 took up his new mandate. Since he was not confirmed in 1918, he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1919 . During this time the First World War ended .

Between 1919 and 1935, Earl Beshlin was a member and later chairman of the Warren County Education Committee. After that he worked in hospital administration. He died in Warren on July 12, 1971 at the age of 101.

Web links

• Earl Hanley Beshlin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Earl Hanley Beshlin in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Orrin Dubbs Bleakley	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (28th constituency) November 6, 1917 - March 3, 1919	Willis James Hulings