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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilla McCord Blake ESLICK
(1878-1961)
ESLICK, Willa McCord
Blake, (wife of Edward Everett Eslick), a Representative
from Tennessee; born in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn.,
September 8, 1878; attended private schools; attended Dick White
College and Milton College, Fayetteville, Tenn.; attended Winthrop
Model School and Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; attended
Metropolitan College of Music and Synthetic School of Music, New
York, N.Y.; member of the Tennessee state Democratic committee;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of her husband United States
Representative Edward E. Eslick (August 14, 1932- March 3, 1933);
was not eligible for reelection to the Seventy-third Congress, not
having qualified for nomination as required by the State law; died
on February 18, 1961, in Pulaski, Tenn.; interment in Maplewood
Cemetery.
Bibliography
”Willa McCord Blake Eslick” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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