Person Colby Cheney

Person Colby Cheney


35th Governor of New Hampshire
In office June 10, 1875 – June 7, 1877
Preceded by	James A. Weston
Succeeded by	Benjamin F. Prescott
United States Senator from New Hampshire
In office November 24, 1886 – June 14, 1887
Preceded by	Austin F. Pike
Succeeded by	William E. Chandler
19th Mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
In office 1872–1872
Preceded by	James A. Weston
Succeeded by	Charles H. Bartlett
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
In office 1854

Personal details
Born	February 25, 1828 Holderness, New Hampshire (now Ashland)
Died	June 19, 1901(1901-06-19) (aged 73) Dover, New Hampshire
Political party	Republican

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.

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.

External links

United States Congress. "Person Colby Cheney (id: C000343)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
Cheney at New Hampshire's Division of Historic Resources

Political offices
Preceded by James A. Weston	Mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire 1872–1872	Succeeded by Charles H. Bartlett
Preceded by James A. Weston	Governor of New Hampshire 1875–1877	Succeeded by Benjamin F. Prescott
U.S. Senate
Preceded by Austin F. Pike	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from New Hampshire 1886–1887 Served alongside: Henry W. Blair	Succeeded by William E. Chandler

Governors of New Hampshire
Weare Langdon Sullivan Langdon Sullivan J. Bartlett Gilman Langdon J. Smith Langdon Plumer Gilman Plumer S. Bell Woodbury Morril Pierce J. Bell Pierce Harvey Dinsmoor Sr. Badger Hill Page Hubbard Steele Colby Williams Dinsmoor Jr. Martin Baker Metcalf Haile Goodwin Berry Gilmore Smyth Harriman Stearns Weston Straw Weston Cheney Prescott Head C. Bell Hale Currier Sawyer Goodell Tuttle J. B. Smith Busiel Ramsdell Rollins Jordan Bachelder McLane Floyd Quinby Bass Felker R. Spaulding Keyes J. H. Bartlett A. Brown F. Brown Winant H. Spaulding Tobey Winant Bridges Murphy Blood Dale Adams H. Gregg Dwinell Powell King Peterson Thomson Gallen Roy (Acting) J. Sununu J. Gregg Hough (Acting) Merrill Shaheen Benson Lynch Hassan Morse (Acting) C. Sununu

United States Senators from New Hampshire
Class 2	Wingate Livermore Olcott Gilman Thompson Morril S. Bell Hubbard Woodbury Jenness Cilley Hale Atherton Williams Hale Cragin Rollins Pike Cheney Chandler Marston Chandler Burnham Hollis Keyes Bridges Murphy McIntyre Humphrey Smith Sununu Shaheen
Class 3	Langdon Sheafe Plumer Parker Cutts Mason Storer Parrott Woodbury Hill Page Pierce Wilcox Atherton Norris Wells J. Bell Clark Fogg Patterson Wadleigh C. Bell Blair Gallinger Drew Moses Brown Tobey Upton Cotton Wyman Cotton Durkin Rudman Gregg Ayotte Hassan

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Types	Bible Blotting Bond Cartridge Construction Cotton (rag) Crêpe Display Dó Asphalt Glassine India Korean Kraft Laid Manila Newsprint Oatmeal Onionskin Origami Baking Building Rice Rolling Scritta Security Seed Copy Tar Thermal Tissue Tracing Transfer Tree-free Wallpaper Washi Waterproof Wax Wood-free Wove Writing Xuan
Materials	Fiber crop Paper chemicals Papyrus Wood pulp
Specifications	Grammage Density Size Units of paper quantity Surface chemistry of paper Wet strength
Manufacture and process	Bleaching of wood pulp Calender Conical refiner Deinking Paper pollution Environmental impact of paper Handmade paper Hollander beater Kraft process Organosolv Paper cut Paper machine Paper recycling Papermaking Soda pulping Sulfite process
Industry	Paper industry In Europe In Canada In India In Japan In the United States Paper mill List of paper mills
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