Career
Born in Mount Airy, Virginia, Beale pursued preparatory studies. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. Beale was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-fourth Congress).
He resumed agricultural pursuits. Beale was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Manufactures (Thirty-second Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852.
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He died in Putnam County, West.Virginia, August 2, 1866. He was interred in Beale Cemetery, near Gallipolis Ferry, Mason County, West.Virginia.
