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Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker
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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker |
| Address |
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
April 09, 1843
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| Died | September 02, 1916
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Aug 04, 2015 12:46am |
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| Info | Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Republican, Governor 1903-1907
Gov. Pennypacker was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1843. Pennypacker served in the Civil War as an enlisted private in Company F of the 26th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. He left the emergency militia in late July 1863 and resumed his education. Pennypacker studied law at the University of Pennsylvania and started his own law practice in 1866. He held several positions as a judge, and in addition Pennypacker wrote as president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Pennypacker ran and successfully beat out the incumbent Governor Robert Pattison in 1902.
While in office, Pennypacker signed into law the Child Labor Act of 1905, setting a minimum age and standard for young workers. He also created the Pennsylvania State Police and the State Museum and in 1906 he vetoed what would have been the first compulsory sterilization law in the United States.
Pennypacker died at his home in Schwenksville, aged 73. Many may be familiar with the home he built while in office, named Pennypacker Mills, which stayed in the family for eight generations before it was then donated to Montgomery County as a historic park.
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