William Raney
| William Edgar Raney | |
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The Hon. William Edgar Raney, KC
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| 10th Attorney General of Ontario | |
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In office November 14, 1919 – July 16, 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Isaac Benson Lucas |
| Succeeded by | William Folger Nickle |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario | |
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In office February 23, 1920 – October 18, 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Albert Hellyer |
| Succeeded by | riding dissolved |
| Constituency | Wellington East |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario | |
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In office December 1, 1926 – September 16, 1927 |
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| Preceded by | Horace Colliver |
| Succeeded by | Horace Colliver |
| Constituency | Prince Edward |
| Leader of the Progressive Party | |
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In office 1925–1927 |
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| Preceded by | Manning Doherty |
| Succeeded by | John Giles Lethbridge |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 8, 1859 Aultsville, Ontario |
| Died | September 24, 1933 (aged 73) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | United Farmers of Ontario |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
William Edgar Raney, K.C. (1859–1933) was a lawyer, politician and judge in Ontario, Canada, in the early twentieth century.
Born on a farm near Aultsville, Ontario, to Herman and Mary Raney, Raney was descended from Huguenot and United Empire Loyalist stock. Raney received his education first at a traditional log schoolhouse, then at St. Catherines Collegiate Institute, Trinity College in Kingston and finally Osgoode Hall, Toronto.
Raney was a well known lawyer in the first decades of the last century and came to the public eye through his opposition to gambling on horse racing, against which he had authored a series of reports.
His son, Paul Hartley Raney, a fighter pilot in the First World War, was killed in action, shot down over Roulers, Belgium (then German-held territory) on August 21, 1917. After the War, Raney made a number of appeals to the War Graves Commission to locate his son's final resting place. Unfortunately, no grave could be located.
Raney was initially a Liberal running unsuccessfully for the Ontario legislature in the 1914 provincial election. After the United Farmers of Ontario unexpectedly won the 1919 provincial election the agrarian party — pursuing an unusual matter of principle — had no lawyers in its caucus and so the new government of E.C. Drury approached Raney to accept the position of Attorney-General. He accepted and contested a by-election entering the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Wellington East. He was sworn in as the Attorney General of Ontario on November 14, 1919.
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