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Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford
1856–1910
A Virginia lawyer, legislator, and author, he moved easily between public life and the printed page. His work reflected the political debates of the South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while his career also touched legal reform and civic causes in Richmond.
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Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession
by Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford
About the author
Born on September 10, 1856, Beverley Bland Munford was an American lawyer, politician, speaker, social reformer, and author based in Richmond, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates for eight years and then in the Virginia Senate for four, building a reputation in public affairs as well as in the law.
Munford also helped found the Richmond law firm that later became known as Hunton & Williams, linking his name to an important part of Virginia's legal history. As a writer, he is especially remembered for Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession (1909), a work that shows his deep engagement with the historical and political arguments surrounding the Civil War era.
He died on May 31, 1910. Today, he is often noted not only for his own public career but also for his connection to a wider circle of Virginia civic life, including his wife, Mary-Cooke Branch Munford, who became a major education and civil rights advocate.