Joseph Grant Beale

Joseph Grant Beale ( born March 26, 1839 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † May 21, 1915 in Leechburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Beale attended the public schools of his home and then the Caton Academy in Turtle Creek and the Iron City Commercial College in Pittsburgh. During the Civil War he served for three years as a captain in a unit from Pennsylvania, who belonged to the army of the Union. In the meantime, he was taken prisoner and was imprisoned in the notorious Libby Prison. After the war he studied law, but he dropped out without a degree. He was a major in the state militia of Pennsylvania. He also worked in Pittsburgh in the coal industry. In the spring of 1868, he moved to Leechburg, where he worked in the iron and steel industry. He also went into the banking industry and was president of the Leechburg Banking Co.

Politically Beale was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was in the 27th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Orlando Smith on March 4, 1907. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1908, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1909.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Joseph Beale took his previous activities on again. He died on 21 May 1915 in Leechburg, where he was also buried.