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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.
BibliographyWilla 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.
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