Background
Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, Eslick was the daughter of George Washington and Eliza McCord Blake.
United States representative politician
Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, Eslick was the daughter of George Washington and Eliza McCord Blake.
She attended private schools, including Dick White College and Milton College in Fayetteville, Tennessee, as well as Winthrop Model School and Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She also attended the Metropolitan College of Music and Synthetic School of Music in New York City.
Eslick served as a Representative from August 14, 1932 until March 3, 1933. She was not eligible for reelection to the Seventy-third Congress, not having qualified for nomination as required by state law. Eslick died on February 18, 1961, in Pulaski, Tennessee, at age 82 years, 163 days.
She is interred at Maplewood Cemetery.
She served as a member of the Tennessee state Democratic committee, and was the first women elected to Congress from Tennessee. She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Order of the Eastern Star.