Beaver County PA Archives Biographies.....Quay, Matthew Stanley  September 30, 1833 - May 28, 1904
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Author: The Ligonier Echo

A Sketch of the Career of the United States Senator-Elect from Pennsylvania
Matthew Stanley Quay, of Beaver, Pa., was born in Dillsburg, York county, Pa.,
September 30, 1833; was prepared for college at Beaver and Indiana academies;
was graduated from Jefferson college in 1850; was admitted to the bar in 1854;
was elected prothonotary of Beaver county in 1856 and re-elected in 1859; was a
lieutenant in Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves; was colonel of the One Hundred and
Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was lieutenant colonel and assistant
commissary general; was State military agent at Washington; was private
secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania; was major and chief of transportation
and telegraphs; was military secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania,
1861-1865; was a member of the Legislature, 1865-1867; was Secretary of the
Common wealth, 1872-1878; was recorder of the city of Philadelphia and chairman
of the Republican State committee, 1878-79; was Secretary of the Common wealth,
1879-1882; was delegate-at-large to the Republican National conventions of 1872,
1876 and 1880; was elected State treasurer in 1885; was elected a member of the
Republican National committee and chosen chairman thereof and ex-officio
chairman of the executive committee when the committee organized in July, 1888,
and conducted the successful Presidential campaign of that year; was a delegate
to the Republican National convention of 1892; was chairman Republican State
committee, 1895-96; was a delegate to the Republican National convention of
1896; was elected a member of the Republican National committee and chosen a
member of the executive committee in 1896; was elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican to succeed John I. Mitchell, and took his seat March 4,
1887; was re-elected in 1893, his term of service expiring March 3, 1899.

Additional Comments:
The Ligonier Echo Wed Jan 23, 1901

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