Heney, Francis Joseph (1859-1937)

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Progressive Party

Something New in Politics, ca. December 1912

Amos Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 3, 1912

Amos Pinchot to Jane Addams, December 21, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Amos Pinchot, December 31, 1912

William Draper Lewis to Sir, January 16, 1913

Jane Addams to Chester H. Rowell, June 5, 1914

Francis J. Heney and Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 29, 1913

Declaration of Support for Support for Robert La Follette, ca. October 24, 1924 (excerpt)

Jane Addams to Francis Heney, October 29, 1914

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

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Birth Date

1859-03-17

Death Date

1937-10-31

Birthplace

Lima, NY

Biographical Text

Francis J. Heney was a lawyer and politician. He attended the University of California while teaching night school, and then worked for a short time as a principal in Idaho. He then attended law school in San Francisco and was admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1884, Heney moved to Arizona and worked as a lawyer and owned a cattle business. From 1893 to 1895 he was Attorney General of the Arizona Territory, and he also served as the U.S. District Attorney for the District of Oregon. Heney worked on many famous cases, such as the Oregon Land Fraud scandal and the San Francisco graft trials. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912 and ran for U.S. Senator from California as a Progressive in 1914.

Heney married Rebecca Wentworth McMullin in 1906. She died in 1911, and Heney remarried to Edna I. Van Winckle in 1915. Heney died in 1937.