MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY
Matthew Stanley Quay, of Beaver. 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 reëlected 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 1861–65; was a member of the legislature 1865–67; was secretary of the commonwealth 1872-78; was recorder of the city of Philadelphia and chairman of the Republican State committee 1878-79; was secretary of the commonwealth 1879–82, 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 and voted against the renomination of Benjamin Harrison; 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, and was reëlected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
