Boies Penrose
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United States Senator from Pennsylvania |
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In office March 4, 1897 – December 31, 1921 |
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| Preceded by | J. Donald Cameron |
| Succeeded by | George Pepper |
| Member of the Republican National Committee from Pennsylvania |
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In office May 18, 1916 – December 31, 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Wasson |
| Succeeded by | George Pepper |
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In office June 9, 1904 – May 1, 1912 |
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| Preceded by | Matthew Quay |
| Succeeded by | Henry Wasson |
| Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania | |
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In office May 27, 1903 – April 26, 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Matthew Quay |
| Succeeded by | Wesley Andrews |
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President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate |
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In office May 9, 1889 – May 28, 1891 |
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| Preceded by | John Grady |
| Succeeded by | John P. S. Gobin |
| Member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 6th district |
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In office January 4, 1887 – January 27, 1897 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Adams, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Israel Durham |
| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the Philadelphia County district |
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In office January 6, 1885 – June 12, 1885 |
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November 1, 1860 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | December 31, 1921 (aged 61) Washington D.C. |
| Political party | Republican |
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1897 until his death in 1921. Penrose was the fourth boss of the Pennsylvania Republican machine, following Simon Cameron, Donald Cameron, and Matthew Quay. Penrose was the longest-serving Pennsylvania Senator until Arlen Specter surpassed his record in 2005.
Born into a prominent Philadelphia family of Cornish descent, he was brother to Richard Penrose and Spencer Penrose. Penrose graduated second in his class from Harvard University in 1881, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1883. Although Penrose wrote two books on political reform, he joined the political machine of Matthew Quay, a Pennsylvania political boss. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1884, and was elected to the State Senate in 1886, where he served as president pro tempore from 1889 to 1891.
In 1903 Boies, along with his brothers and father, invested in the formation of the Utah Copper Company.
Penrose was an avid outdoorsman and took pleasure in mountain exploration and big-game hunting. A mountain in Montana and another in the Dickson Range in the Bridge River Country in British Columbia were climbed and named by him. The Senator was a large, heavy man and according to his hunting guide, W.G. (Bill) Manson, they had to shop all over the place to get a horse big enough to fit Penrose and his custom saddle. The horse was called "Senator", and was retired to the pasture because no standard saddle would fit him.
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