Notes for Boies PENROSE

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Notes for Boies PENROSE

PENROSE, Boies, senator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 1, 1860; son of Dr. Richard Alexander and Sarah Hannah (Boies) Penrose; grandson of the Hon. Charles Bingham and Valeria Fullerton (Biddle) Penrose, and great-grandson of Clement Biddle Penrose, one of the commissioners appointed by Jefferson for the Louisiana territory. He was graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1883. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1885; a member of the state senate, 1887-97, and president pro tempore of the senate in 1889 and 1891. He was a Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, 1897-1909, serving as chairman of the committee on immigration, and as a member of many important committees. He contributed several chapters on municipal law to the American and English Encyclopćdia of Law, and with Edward P. Allinson wrote: Philadelphia; a History of Municipal Development (1887).

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