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Penrose (BOIES United States United)

BOIES, United States at Philadelphia, and graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1881.

Two years later he was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, but he has never practiced law very extensively, his time being taken up by the politics of the Republican party and his public duties.

He first entered politics as Republican PENROSE member of the State House of Representatives, and later, in 1887, was elected to the State Senate. In 1897 the Republicans elected him to the United States Senate and have since regularly renominated and elected him. In 1919 he became Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate.

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