William Scott Vare
[1] He won election to the United States Senate for Pennsylvania in 1926 but was never seated and was eventually removed in 1929 due to allegations of corruption and voter fraud.George (1859–1908), Edwin (1862–1922) and William were known as the "Dukes of South Philadelphia" and controlled ward leadership and patronage jobs for decades.[3] John Wanamaker, the department store magnate, took young Bill under his wing and paid for his tuition at Central High School in Philadelphia.Their projects included building trolley tracks, sewers, the Municipal Stadium, the Broad Street subway and excavating the site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.This left Bill Vare as the undisputed political leader of Philadelphia, with broad influence over the burgeoning industrial and economic region of the middle Atlantic seaboard.In a further bid to gird the fiscal foundation of the Party, Vare decided to extract "loyalty oaths" from the entire Philadelphia Republican organization.[13] Vare remained powerful; his unexpectedly supporting Herbert Hoover as the nominee at the 1928 Republican National Convention forced other party leaders to also do so, helping end hopes to draft President Calvin Coolidge to run again.The Pennsylvania delegation at the convention unanimously supported a resolution demanding that Vare be allowed to enter the Senate.[14] Governor John S. Fisher (successor to Pinchot) appointed Joseph R. Grundy to the vacant Senate seat.