BOIES PENROSE
Boies Penrose, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, November 1, 1860; was prepared for college by private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia; was graduated from Harvard College in 1881; read law with Wayne McVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, and was admitted to the bar in 1883; practiced his profession in partnership with S. Davis Page and Edward P. Allinson under the firm name of Page, Allinson & Penrose; was elected to the Pennsylvania house of representatives from the eighth Philadelphia district in 1884; in connection with Edward P. Allinson, wrote, at the request of Johns Hopkins University, for the university studies in historical and political science, a “History of the City Government of Philadelphia;” was elected to the Pennsylvania State senate from the sixth Philadelphia district in 1886, reëlected in 1890, and again in 1894; was elected president pro tempore of the senate in 1889, and reëlected in 1891; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to succeed J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
