Frank Eckels Beltzhoover

Frank Eckels Beltzhoover ( born November 6, 1841 in Silver Spring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, † June 2, 1923 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883, and again from 1891 to 1895, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Beltzhoover attended the Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg, the Big Spring Academy in Newville and thereafter until 1862. After a subsequent law degree in 1864 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Carlisle to work in this profession. From 1874 to 1877 he worked as a district attorney. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1868 and 1873 he was the district chairman in Cumberland County. In June 1876 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in part, was nominated at the Samuel J. Tilden as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Beltzhoover was in the 19th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Levi Maish on March 4, 1879. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. In 1882 he opted not to run again. In the elections of 1890 Beltzhoover was re-elected in the 19th district of his state in Congress, where he again Levi Maish replaced on March 4, 1891, which had in the meantime also returned to parliament. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1895 U.S. House of Representatives. During this time he was chairman of the Committee on War Claims. In 1894, he did not stand for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Frank Beltzhoover again practiced as a lawyer in Carlisle. In 1910 he gave up this profession and withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Los Angeles. He died there on June 2, 1923 and was buried in his former hometown Carlisle.