Ahiman Louis Miner

Ahiman Louis Miner ( born September 23, 1804 in Middletown, Rutland County, Vermont; † July 19, 1886 in Manchester, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ahiman Miner attended the common schools and the Castleton Academy. After studying law in Poultney and Rutland and its made ​​in 1832 admitted to the bar he began in 1833 to work in Wallingford in his new profession. In 1835 he moved his residence and his law practice to Manchester.

Ahiman Miner was a member of the Whig party. Between 1836 and 1838 he was an administrative clerk in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In the years 1838, 1839 and 1846, he was elected as a Member of Parliament in this chamber; In 1840 he was a member of the State Senate. Between 1843 and 1844 was Miner district attorney in Bennington County. After that, he was employed at a probate court as an employee and from 1846 to 1849 as a judge. From 1846 to his death in 1886, Miner was also active as a justice of the peace.

1850 Miner was elected in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1851 the successor of William Henry. Rejecting a bid again in 1852, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. After the end of his time in Congress Miner again worked as a lawyer. But he was still politically active. In the years 1853, 1861 and 1865 to 1868 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. He died in July 1886 in Manchester.

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