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Matthew Quay was born on September 30, 1833, in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of a Presbyterian minister.
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Matthew Quay was born on September 30, 1833, in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of a Presbyterian minister.
In 1850 he graduated from Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson) and in 1854 was admitted to the bar. He mastered several languages.
Quay's political career began modestly when, in 1856, he was elected prothonotary of Beaver County.
During the American Civil War, he served in the Union Army as a member of the 134th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, which he commanded as a colonel.
His work in the gubernatorial election of 1860 gained the attention of state politicians.
In 1865 he was elected to the state House of Representatives. Initially opposed to the state organization of Republican boss Simon Cameron, Quay turned from politics in 1867 to edit and publish the Beaver Radical.
A twist in state politics brought him into the Cameron fold in 1872. The Cameron-Quay machine was as ruthless as the more famous Tweed organization of New York. As secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1872-1878, 1879 - 1881), Quay played a pivotal role in attempts to weld local organizations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to the state machine.
An especially blatant attempt to capture Philadelphia in 1878 by making him city recorder collapsed under public protest. Although implicated in a scandal in the state treasurer's office, he was elected state treasurer by an overwhelming margin in 1885.
In 1888 Quay managed the presidential victory of Benjamin Harrison but broke with Harrison over distributing patronage. Intimate knowledge of his state, control of patronage, and insistence on party loyalty made Quay supreme in Pennsylvania.
Serving in the U. S. Senate (1887-1899, 1901 - 1902), Quay championed the protective tariff and little else. Controversy also marked his Senate career. When the Pennsylvania Legislature failed to fill his seat in 1899, the governor appointed Quay for a third term, only to have the Senate refuse to seat him. He was reelected in 1901.
His public record, as with other bosses of the period, was no measure of his great influence within the national councils of his party.
His brand of politics, under attack when he died in 1904, helped nationalize American politics during years of rapid industrial and social change.
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He was a member of the Republican Party and a partisan of minority rights, defending Indian tribes and opposing Chinese exclusion.
Quotations:
"I don't mind losing the governorship or a legislature now
and then, but I always need the state treasuryship. "
Shrewdly laconic, he knew, as one observer noted, "how to keep silent in fifteen languages. "
In 1855, Quay married Agnes Barclay (1831-1911); they were the parents of several children, of whom five lived to adulthood.