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James Andrew (Jack) Beall (October 25, 1866 - February 12, 1929) was an American politician who represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives from 1903-1915.

Beall was born on a farm near Midlothian, Texas. He attended the county schools and then taught school in 1884 and 1885. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1890 and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Waxahachie, Texas.

Beall was a member of the Texas House of Representatives 1892-1895. He served in the Texas Senate 1895-1899 and was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1915). In Congress, he was chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-second Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914.

After leaving Congress, Beall moved to Dallas, Texas in 1914 and resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking. He served as president of the Texas Electric Railway Company from 1921 until his death in Dallas, Texas in 1929. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery.

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• Jack Beall at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress