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Asbury Bateman Conaway (October 13, 1837 – December 8, 1897) was a justice of the Territorial
Wyoming Supreme Court The Wyoming Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The Court consists of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices. Each Justice is appointed by the Governor of Wyoming from a list of three nominees submitted by the ...
from June 21, 1890, to October 11, 1890, and of the Wyoming Supreme Court from October 11, 1890, until his death, on December 8, 1897. Born near
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, Conaway received his
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from
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, and entered the private practice of law in
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, in 1861.Wyoming State Archives biography of Asbury B. Conaway, available at 2301 Central Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001. He moved to
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in 1868, first arriving in South Pass, and relocating to Green River the following year. Conaway was a county attorney and a prosecuting attorney for
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, and "was active in politics". On June 21, 1890, President
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appointed Conaway to the Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court. Wyoming was
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in July of that year, and Conaway was then elected to the newly established Wyoming Supreme Court in September, taking office when the Court was officially sworn in as such in October. He died near the end of his second term on December 8, 1897.


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Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court Iowa Wesleyan University alumni People from McLean County, Illinois People from Green River, Wyoming 1837 births 1897 deaths 19th-century American judges {{Wyoming-state-judge-stub