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Person Colby Cheney

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Preceded by
  
James A. Weston

Preceded by
  
James A. Weston

Resigned
  
June 7, 1877

Succeeded by
  
William E. Chandler

Party
  
Republican Party


Preceded by
  
Austin F. Pike

Name
  
Person Cheney

Succeeded by
  
Charles H. Bartlett

Siblings
  
Oren B. Cheney

Person Colby Cheney

Role
  
Former Governor of New Hampshire

Died
  
June 19, 1901, Dover, New Hampshire, United States

Previous office
  
Governor of New Hampshire (1875–1877)

People also search for
  
Moses Cheney, Oren B. Cheney, John Lynch

Succeeded by
  
Benjamin F. Prescott

Person Colby Cheney (February 25, 1828 – June 19, 1901) was a paper manufacturer, abolitionist and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. He was the 35th Governor of New Hampshire and later represented the state in the United States Senate.

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Biography

Cheney was born in Holderness (now Ashland) to abolitionists, Abigail and Moses Cheney. Oren Burbank Cheney, the founder of Bates College, was Person Cheney's older brother. Cheney attended academies in Peterborough and Hancock and the Parsonsfield Seminary in Parsonsfield, Maine. He engaged in the manufacture of paper in Peterborough until 1866, and in 1854 was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

During the Civil War he was first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster in the Thirteenth Regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry (1862–1863). He was state railroad commissioner 1864-1867. He moved to Manchester in 1867 and engaged in business as a dealer in paper stock and continued the manufacture of paper at Goffstown.

Political career

He also engaged in agricultural pursuits until being elected mayor of Manchester in 1871. He was Governor of New Hampshire from 1875 to 1877. Cheney was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Austin F. Pike, and served from November 24, 1886, to June 14, 1887, when a successor was elected and qualified. He was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy, and resumed his former manufacturing pursuits.

Cheney served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland in 1892–1893. He died in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire in 1901 and is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery at Manchester.

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