James Francis Miller

James Francis Miller ( born August 1, 1830 in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina, † July 3, 1902 in Gonzales, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Miller attended the public schools of his home and the Reuters Ville College in Texas, where he had moved in 1842 with his parents. After a subsequent law degree in 1857 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Gonzales to work in this profession. During the Civil War he served in Terry 's Texas Rangers, who belonged to the army of the Confederacy. After the war he continued his legal work. He also went into the banking industry. Moreover, he was also active in the field of animal husbandry.

Politically, Miller was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was in the then newly established eighth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. Since 1885 he was chairman of the Committee on banking and currency matters. In 1886 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Miller took his previous activities on again. Already in 1885, yet during his time Congress, he was elected the first president of the Texas Bankers' Association. He died on July 3, 1902 in Gonzales, where he was also buried.