Penrose, Boies

Penrose, Boies

▪ United States senator
born Nov. 1, 1860, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.
died Dec. 31, 1921, Washington, D.C.

      American legislator and longtime party boss of Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. senator from Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1921.

      Penrose was a member of a socially prominent Philadelphia family. He graduated from Harvard University in 1881 and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1883. Penrose began to practice law in Philadelphia and soon became interested in government and politics. He was elected as a Republican to the state legislature in 1884 and to the state senate in 1887. In that year he also published The City Government of Philadelphia, a study prepared in collaboration with law partner Edward P. Allinson, which advocated certain municipal reforms. The politics of reform did not long hold his interest, however, as he became associated with state party boss Matthew S. Quay. In 1895 Penrose ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for mayor of Philadelphia. Two years later he was elected to the U.S. Senate and was successively reelected until his death.

      Succeeding Quay as Republican boss of Pennsylvania in 1904, Penrose thereafter maintained a firm grip on state affairs that was broken only temporarily in 1912, when Progressives, led by former President Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt, Theodore) on the national level, succeeded in challenging his authority. In a dispute over campaign funds, Roosevelt and others stepped up their attacks, characterizing Penrose as the archetypal political boss whose corrupting influence stood in the way of clean, honest government. Although never charged with bribery or otherwise profiting financially from his role in politics (he was independently wealthy), Penrose was undisputedly the chief power broker in Pennsylvania in the first decades of the century and used that power freely. In the Senate he rose to the post of chairman of the Finance Committee in 1911 and again in 1919. He held the position until his death. He opposed virtually all measures that the Progressives brought forth during this period, including liquor prohibition and woman suffrage.

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