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The 1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania by the state legislature began on January 17, 1899, to fill the seat held by Matthew Quay, Pennsylvania's Republican political boss. Quay sought election to a third term, but was damaged by an indictment for financial irregularities. Although Republicans had an majority in the legislature, enough were anti-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, Ohio Senator Mark Hanna, for this and revenged himself at the 1900 Republican National Convention by supporting New York's Thomas C. Platt's scheme to politically sideline that state's governor, Theodore Roosevelt, 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.