:''See Joseph Henry Beale for the law professor.'' Joseph Grant Beale (March 26, 1839 – May 21, 1915) was a Republican

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from the state of

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Biography

Joseph G. Beale was born near Freeport, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from

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, and from the Iron City Commercial College in

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. During the

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, he enlisted in the Friend Rifles for three months, and later served as

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of Company C, Ninth Regiment,

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, for three years. He was taken prisoner and confined in Libby Prison,

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, until released on parole. He studied law and served as major in the Pennsylvania State Militia. Discontinuing the study of law, he engaged in the

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business in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. In 1868, he moved to

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, and actively engaged in the

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and

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business. He served as president of the Leechburg Banking Co. Beale was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908. He resumed his former business pursuits, and died in Leechburg in 1915. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery.

References

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