New Hampshire at the Centennial: The Address of Governor Cheney; the Oration .
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Person Colby Cheney was an American manufacturer and politician. He was the 35th Governor of New Hampshire from 1875 to 1877. He served as a member of the United States Senate from New Hampshire from 1886 to 1887.
Background
Person Colby Cheney was born on February 25, 1828 in Holderness, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Moses and Abigail (Morrison) Cheney, his father being one of the pioneer paper manufacturers of the state, a business with which he himself was identified throughout the greater part of his life. In 1835 the family moved to Peterboro.
Education
Person Cheney completed his education at Hancock Literary and Scientific Institution and the academy at Parsonsfield, Maine.
Career
Cheney entered business at Parsonsfield, Maine becoming in 1853 a partner in the firm of Cheney, Hadley & Gowing, paper manufacturers. In 1863, he served as quartermaster in the 13th New Hampshire Infantry, but was discharged because of ill health after a few months’ service. A year later he was elected railroad commissioner for a three-year term.
In 1866 he moved to Manchester. He now reorganized and extended his business, engaging in paper-making at Goffstown and the manufacture of wood pulp at Peterboro. Mills at both these places were under the same corporate organization and operations were later extended to several other towns as well.
In 1872 he was elected mayor of Manchester and in the same year a trustee of Bates College of which his brother, Oren Burbank Cheney, was president. He was interested, however, in Republican activities and was an influential leader in party matters. In 1875 he was nominated for the governorship and after a campaign so closely contested that final choice rested with the legislature, was elected. In 1876 he was again elected, this time by the popular vote. He was a successful executive. His terms fell in a period of unemployment and business depression, and his efforts were largely devoted toward economy, improved administration, and the reduction of the public debt.
After retirement from office he devoted himself to business affairs but in 1886 served out the unexpired term of Austin F. Pike in the United States Senate (November 24, 1886 - June 14, 1887). From December 1892 to June 1893 he served as envoy extraordinary to Switzerland. He was from 1892 until his death a member of the Republican National Committee. In both business and politics he represented the better type of the period, and in both won its conventional rewards for successful effort.
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Politics
Cheney was a member of the Republican Party. He urged the adoption of a simplified amending process, a reduction in the size of the lower house, a larger Senate, the abolition of the religious test for office, and biennial elections. On the liquor question, then an active issue in the state, he declared that the most effective effort was that which “untiringly seeks to write on men’s hearts the law of individual self control. ”
Connections
Cheney was twice married: on May 22, 1850, to Annie, daughter of Samuel M. Moore of Bronson, Michigan, and after her death in 1858, on June 29, 1859, to Mrs. Sarah W. Keith.