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Matthew Stanley Quay (September 30, 1833 – May 28, 1904) was an immensely powerful Pennsylvania political boss once dubbed a "kingmaker" by President Benjamin Harrison. "Boss" Quay's political principles and actions stood in contrast to an unusually attractive personality. He was a resident of Beaver, northwest of Pittsburgh, where his house has been designated as a National Historic ...
26. Sept. 2023 · Facts first. In the beginning, around 1850, the buildings at 4 and 5 Fr Matthew Quay were used as a store downriver from Beamish & Crawford, just below Parliament Bridge, back when sail ships still traversed up the River Lee and docked in the city centre quays. In its appraisal of the building, the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ...
Matthew Stanley Quay, by William A. Greaves, 1896. Except for George Washington Plunkett of New York, no political boss in the late 1800s was as quotable as Beaver County's Matthew Quay, who once famously described politics as "the art of taking money from the few and votes from the many under the pretext of protecting the one from the other."
Due to popular demand, the Beaver Area Heritage Museum’s award-winning “Senator Matthew Stanley Quay: Saint or Sinner?” exhibit will remain open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays from March 18 through June 2023. More than 1,500 guests viewed the display in 2022 and overwhelmingly cast their votes that Quay was more of a sinner than saint in his life’s work. An all-new ...
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This article examines how Quay used money and patronage as the founda tion for gaining and maintaining power. The techniques suggest how practical politicians in the post-Civil War era practiced their trade. POLITICAL BACKGROUND Matthew Quay's political Odyssey began in a small rural community north west of Pittsburgh. Before the Civil War, he ...
