sentences:  Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses Beebe was U. S. Representative for the fourteenth district from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1879.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-fourth Congress), and was on the Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-fifth Congress).An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress, he resumed his former newspaper pursuits.