Career
Penny sat in the upper house as a Liberal. He died at the age of 51 after a bout of bronchial pneumonia.
politician Member of the Senate of Canada
Penny sat in the upper house as a Liberal. He died at the age of 51 after a bout of bronchial pneumonia.
He was the operator of a frozen fish plant business in the southwest of Newfoundland and had been an active member of the Newfoundland Confederate Association which had campaigned for the former colony to join Canada.