Earl Hanley Beshlin (April 28, 1870 – July 12, 1971)[1] was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1917 to 1919.
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. Beshlin's Republican opponent in the 1917 special election, Captain Ulysses Grant Lyons, was actually declared the winner erroneously on November 7, 1917, by the New York Times.[2] Beshlin was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918.
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Beshlin was a member and later chairman of the Board of Education of Warren County from 1919 to 1935. He was also a hospital executive.
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