Samuel Cony [SEP] position held
Samuel Cony
Samuel Cony (February 27, 1811 – October 5, 1870) was an American politician, who most notably served as the 31st Governor of Maine from 1864 to 1867.
Early years.
Cony was born in Augusta (in modern-day Maine, then a part of Massachusetts) on February 27, 1811. He studied at the China Academy and Wakefield College. He graduated from Brown University in 1829. He then studied law with future U.S. Congressman Hiram Belcher, of Farmington and also with his
held a variety of state offices, serving in the Maine House of Representatives (1899–1901, and as its Speaker in 1901), and the Maine State Senate (1903–04). His wife was the daughter of a former Maine governor, and his son also became a Republican politico in New York City.
Manley's "New York Times" obituary describes him as "a national politician who was identified with vast corporate interests".
Manley married the daughter of former Maine governor Samuel Cony and was a driving force behind