Louis Richmond Cheney (1859–1944) was a businessman and political figure from Connecticut.

[2][3] Cheney served, with the rank of colonel, as quartermaster general of the Connecticut Militia from 1895 to 1897.

In 1898 he was reduced in rank to major and commanded the socially elite 1st Company of the Governor's Foot Guard.

He was also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars (served as Governor of the Connecticut Society from 1910 to 1912), Military Order of Foreign Wars (served as Commander of the Connecticut Commandery), the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America.

He was also chairman of the several Red Cross fund raising campaigns starting in 1917, when the United States entered the First World War.

[2] Cheney lived at 40 Woodland Street in Hartford and had a summer home, named Tholassa Cottage, on Eastern Point in York Harbor, Maine.