James Beverley Sener

James Beverley Sener ( born May 18, 1837 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, † November 18, 1903 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Sener attended private schools and went on to study at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After a subsequent study of law at Washington College, later Washington and Lee University, and his 1860 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Fredericksburg in this profession. In the same year he was sheriff of his hometown. Between 1863 and 1865 he held the position of Sergeant of the city of Fredericksburg. During the Civil War Sener for the Southern Associated Press news agency worked. In this capacity, he served temporarily General Robert E. Lee, to report on its military campaigns. In 1865 he published the newspaper Fredericksburg Ledger. After the Civil War he joined the Republican Party. In June 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the President Ulysses S. Grant for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Sener was elected in the first district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John Critcher on March 4, 1873. Since he Democrat Beverly B. Douglas defeated in 1874, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1875. During this time he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Justice. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Sener again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1878 and 1882 he was chief judge in Wyoming Territory. He died on 18 November 1903 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Fredericksburg.