George Joseph Penny was one of Newfoundland's first three members of the Canadian Senate

Canadian Senate

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 who were appointed on August 17, 1949, shortly after the province joined Canadian confederation

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He was the operator of a frozen fish plant business in the southwest of Newfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador

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 and had been an active member of the Newfoundland Confederate Association which had campaigned for the former colony to join Canada. Penny sat in the upper house

Upper house

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 as a Liberal

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. He died at the age of 51 after a bout of bronchial pneumonia.

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