George W. Pepper
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George Wharton Pepper (March 16, 1867 – May 24, 1961) was an American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate.
From 1892 to 1895, he edited and published the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (then called the American Law Register and Review) with his friend William Draper Lewis. In the early 1900s, a court appointed Pepper as receiver for the Bay State Gas Company, a bankrupt Massachusetts utility. Pepper led the company in suing a number of nationally-known businessmen, including William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, and Thomas W. Lawson, whom he accused of unfairly enriching themselves at the expense of the company.
During 1920's controversy about the expansion of advertising, Senator Pepper argued for a "nationwide code of regulation," as pronounced in a 1929 speech to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. He pointed out that in preserving natural beauty, no national economic benefit was lost-- real estate values and related figures would increase without the addition of billboards. Pepper represented what was, at the time, the general popular will: that if billboards became mainstream, this would signal advertising becoming too obtrusive, too aggressive in its campaign to persuade the public.
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| Preceded by Boies Penrose |
U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1922–1927 |
Succeeded by William S. Vare |
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