MATTHEW

See also:

• STANLEY (FAMILY)
• STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN (18x5–1881)
• STANLEY, EDWARD (1779-1849)
• STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON (184o-1904)
• STANLEY, SIR WILLIAM (1548-163o)
• STANLEY, THOMAS (1625-1678)

STANLEY

See also:

• QUAY
• MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY (1833-1904)

QUAY (1833-1904)  , American political " boss," was born in Dillsburg, York county, Pennsylvania, on the 3oth of September 1833 . He graduated at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College) in 185o and was admitted to the bar in 1854 . He served in various capacities in the Civil War, and in 1865-1867 was a member of the- state House of Representatives, becoming secretary of the commonwealth in 1873-1878 and again in 1879-1882, recorder of Philadelphia in 1878-1879, and state treasurer in 1886-1887 . He was chairman of the Republican national executive campaign committee in 1888, and was a member of the United States Senate in 1887-1899 and again in 1901-1904 . For nearly twenty years he dominated the government of Pennsylvania, and also played a very prominent part in national affairs . In 1899 he was brought to trial on a charge of misappropriating state funds, and, although he was acquitted, the feeling among the reform element in his own party was so bitter against him that the legislature was dead-locked and his re-election was postponed for two years . He died on the 28th of May 1904 .