Edward McMath Beers

Republican Representative of Pennsylvania's 18th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

May 27, 1877 (54 years old)

Birthday

April 21, 1932

Death

Served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Born in Nossville, Tell Township, Pennsylvania
Moved to Mount Union, Pennsylvania in 1895
Graduated from Mount Union High School in 1895
Became the proprietor of the Beers Hotel after his father’s death in 1895
Engaged in agricultural pursuits
Was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1898
Served as mayor of Mount Union from 1910 to 1914
Served on the board of directors for the First National Bank of Mount Union and the Grange Trust Co. of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Served as an associate judge of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania from 1914 to 1923
Elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving until his death
Died in office in Washington, D.C.
Buried in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery in Mount Union