Willa McCord Blake Eslick
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Willa McCord Blake Eslick (September 8, 1878 - February 18, 1961) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee, wife of Edward Everett Eslick.
Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, Eslick attended private schools, including Dick White College and Milton College in Fayetteville, Tennessee, as well as Winthrop Model School and Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She also attended the Metropolitan College of Music and Synthetic School of Music in New York City. She served as a member of the Tennessee state Democratic committee. She was the first women elected to Congress from Tennessee.
Eslick was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death in office of her husband, Representative Edward Eslick. Willa Eslick served as a Representative from August 14, 1932 until March 3, 1933). She was not eligible for reelection to the Seventy-third Congress, not having qualified for nomination as required by state law.
Willa Eslick died on February 18, 1961, in Pulaski, Tennessee, and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery.
