Edwin Duing Eshleman

Edwin duing Eshleman ( born December 4, 1920 in Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, † 10 January 1985 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1967 and 1977 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Eshleman visited until 1942, the Franklin and Marshall College. During the Second World War he was a lieutenant in the Coast Guard. He later studied political science at Temple University. He then worked as a teacher. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1954 and 1966 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1966, Eshleman was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John C. Kunkel on January 3, 1967. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1977 five legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, and in 1974, the Watergate affair.

1976 renounced Edwin Eshleman on another candidacy. He died on January 10, 1985 in Lancaster.