Background and Early Career
Born on a farm near Aultsville, Ontario, (interestingly, another notable Ontario politician, Sir James Whitney, was born on the farm adjacent to it) to Herman and Mary Raney, William E. Raney 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.
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