{{Short description|American politician (1852–1912)}} {{Infobox officeholder |birth_name=Jacob Atlee Beidler |name = Jacob Beidler |image=Jacob A. Beidler 002.png |state=Ohio |district=20th |term_start=March 4, 1901 |term_end=March 3, 1907 |preceded=Fremont O. Phillips |succeeded=L. Paul Howland |party=Republican |birth_date={{birth date|1852|11|2}} |birth_place=Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1912|8|13|1852|11|2}} |death_place=Willoughby, Ohio, U.S. |resting_place = Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |spouse=Hannah M. Rhoades<ref name=Marquis>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/78/mode/2up Beidler, Jacob Atlee], in ''Who's Who in America'' (1901-1902 edition); p. 78; via archive.org</ref> |children= |alma_mater= }} {{commons category}}

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==Biography== Born in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania, Beidler attended the country schools, and Locke's Seminary, Norristown, Pennsylvania. He moved to Ohio and settled in Willoughby in Lake County in 1873.

=== Business career === He engaged in business as a coal dealer and later as an operator. Beidler was elected a member of the city council of Willoughby in 1881. He moved to his farm, "Belle Vernon," near Willoughby, in 1881 and engaged in raising dairy cattle. He served as president of the Belle Vernon-Mapes Dairy Co.. He served as vice president of the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railroad Co. Presidential elector in 1896 for McKinley/Hobart.<ref>Taylor 1899 : vol. 2, 136</ref>

==Congress == Beidler was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1907).

Owing to ill health he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

==Later career == He resumed his former business activities. He served as president of the Rhodes & Beidler Coal Co. He served as member of the State board of agriculture.

==Death== He died at "Belle Vernon," near Willoughby, Ohio, September 13, 1912. He was interred in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.

==Sources== {{reflist}} {{CongBio|B000317}} *{{cite book |title=Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... |first1=William Alexander |last1=Taylor |first2=Aubrey Clarence |last2=Taylor |year=1899 |publisher=State of Ohio |volume=2 |ref=taylor1899|page=136 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ}} {{Bioguide}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state = Ohio | district = 20 | before=Fremont O. Phillips | after= L. Paul Howland | years= 1901-1907 }} {{s-end}} {{OhioRepresentatives19}}

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