The 1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held by the Pennsylvania General Assembly starting on January 17, 1899, to fill the Senate seat occupied by Matthew Quay, the state's Republican political boss. Quay sought election to a third term, but was damaged by an indictment for financial irregularities. Although Republicans had a majority in the legislature, enough were opposed to Quay to deny him re- election. After 79 ballots, the session ended on April 20, the day Quay was acquitted, without the election of a senator. Governor William A. Stone appointed Quay to the seat, but the Senate refused to seat him. Quay blamed his fellow Republican boss, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, for this and revenged himself at the 1900 Republican National Convention by backing Thomas C. Platt's scheme to politically sideline Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York by making him vice president, over Hanna's strong objection. The 1901 legislature elected Quay to the Senate and he served there until his death in 1904.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
On James Cook's second voyage, his vessel HMS Resolution became the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook
1912:
Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition reached the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen's team had beaten them by 33 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition
1961:
Patrice Lumumba, a former prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the Belgian and US governments and the UN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba
2002:
Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, began an eruption that killed hundreds and left about 120,000 people homeless in the nearby town of Goma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo
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crunkmeister: (music, slang, rare) A performer of crunk music. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crunkmeister
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The greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts and souls. --Anne Brontë https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB