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SENER, James Beverly, lawver, b. in Fredericksburg, Va., 18 May, 1837. He
received an academic preparation, attended lectures at the University of
Virginia as a state student, and was graduated in several of the schools of the
university. He then studied law at Lexington, Va., was admitted to the bar in
March, 1860, and served as sergeant (or sheriff) of the city of Fredericksburg,
Va., in 1863-'5. He was army correspondent of the Southern associated press,
with Gen. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in 1862-'5, and from 1865 till 1875
was editor of the Fredericksburg " Ledger." Mr. Sener was a delegate from
Virginia to the National Republican conventions of 1872 and 1876 and served on
the National Republican committee from 1876 till 1880. He was a member of
congress in 1873-'5, and was the chairman of the committee on expenditures in
the department of justice, being the first chairman of such a committee. He was
chief justice of Wyoming territory from 18 Dec., 1879, till 10 March, 1884.

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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography 1900

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