Plumas-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Cheney, William A. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

WILLIAM A. CHENEY.-This gentleman is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and
settled in La Porte in the fall of 1876, as a minister of the gospel. He
remained there during the winter, and came to Quincy to attend the republican
convention of 1877, entering the lists as a candidate for the county judgeship.
He received the nomination over T. P. Emmons of Greenville and J. W. Walker of
Taylorville. The delegation from La Porte demanded the nomination of Cheney, and
the leaders of the party, remembering how, on a former occasion in 1869, a bolt
had occurred under similar circumstances, whereby Pappy B. W. Barnes had been
defeated by G. C. Charles, conceded the point, and put the La Porte man on the
ticket. Walker, an intelligent young Louisiana man and Emmons, a pioneer of the
party in Plumas, felt greatly aggrieved, and left the convention in disgust.
Jackson Urie was the democratic nominee, and though a pioneer, familiarly known
was defeated by Cheney at the election by a small majority. Judge Cheney, though
not a law student, had the advantage of being a man of education. After his
election, Judge Cheney moved to Quincy, abandoned the pulpit, and turned his
attention to the law. In 1879 Judge Cheney ran for joint senator from Butte and
Plumas counties, having opposed to him George H. Crossette, democratic, of
Chico, and John C. Gray, new constitution, of Oroville. Both of these he
defeated by a large plurality. In December, 1879, he was admitted to practice in
the supreme court. He now resides in Sacramento. His overweening self-esteem and
confidence in his own superiority have not endeared him to the people of Plumas
county.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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