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Quay, Matthew Stanley

soldier, United States senator, was born Sept. 30, 1833, in Dillsburg, Pa. He was military secretary to the governor of Pennsylvania in 1861-65, and was a member of the legislature in 1865-67. He was secretary of the commonwealth in 1871-78; was recorder of the city of Philadelphia, and chairman of the republican state committee in 1878- 79; was secretary of the commonwealth in 1879-82, and was delegate-at-large to the republican national conventions of 1872, 1876 and 1880. He was elected state treasurer in 1885. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican, and was re-elected in 1893.