Samuel Freeman Miller
Samuel Freeman Miller ( born April 5, 1816 in Richmond, Kentucky, † October 13, 1890 in Washington, DC) was an American judge at the Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. Supreme Court ).
Life
After schooling Miller studied medicine at Transylvania University in Lexington and graduated in 1838 with a Doctor of Medicine ( MD ) from. In addition to his subsequent work as a doctor, he studied law and received in 1847 the admission of lawyers in Kentucky.
After a subsequent career as a lawyer was Miller, who originally supported the Whig party and later supporters of the Republican Party was on July 21, 1862 Assistant Secretary following his appointment by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln judge on the United States Supreme Court and thus the successor of the May 31, 1860 late Peter Vivian Daniel. During his affiliation with the U.S. Supreme Court, he worked with, among others, the important decisions about the procedures Texas v. White in 1869 and Strauder v. West Virginia in 1880.
In 1876 he was among the members of a fifteen -member Electoral Commission, which was composed of equal parts of five members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the Supreme Court, and had to decide the dispute in the U.S. presidential election of 1876. The Election Commission decided on March 2, finally, that Rutherford B. Hayes, the three southern states ( and thus the overall election against Samuel J. Tilden ) had won ( it voted the respective party members for their respective candidates). On March 5, 1876 Hayes was sworn in as the new president.
The Office of the Associate Justice he practiced until his death from more than 28 years and was then buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Keokuk. Successor as Assistant Judge was Henry Billings Brown.
Publications
- Samuel Freeman Miller correspondence and diaries, 1876
- The Constitution of the United States: three lectures delivered before the University Law School of Washington, DC, 1880
- An address on the conflict in this country in between socialism and organized society: delivered at the commencement of State University of Iowa, June 19th, 1888, 1888
- The Constitution and the Supreme court of the United States of America, 1889
- Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, 1891
Background literature
- Proceedings of the bench and bar of the Supreme court of the United States in memory of Samuel F. Miller, Obituary of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1891
- Charles Noble Gregory: Samuel Freeman Miller, 1907
- Charles Fairman: Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, 1862-1890, 1939