Earl Hanley Beshlin

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Earl Hanley Beshlin (April 28, 1870–July 12, 1971) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Earl H. Beshlin was born in Conewango Township, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Warren High School in Warren, Pennsylvania. He became a lawyer and engaged in private practice. He was elected burgess of Warren County, Pennsylvania, from 1906 to 1909. He served as borough solicitor of Warren County from 1914 to 1918.

Beshlin elected as a Democrat and Prohibitionist to the Sixty-fifth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Orrin D. Bleakley. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918. He was a member and later chairman of the Board of Education of Warren County from 1919 to 1935. He was also a hospital executive. He died in 1971, in Warren. Interment in Oakland Mausoleum.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Orrin D. Bleakley

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district 1917 - 1919

Succeeded by Willis J. Hulings