Frederick Miles

Frederick Miles ( born December 19, 1815 in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut, † November 20, 1896 in Salisbury, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883, and again from 1889 to 1891, he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Miles attended the common schools and then completed a continuing education program. By 1857, he worked in his native Goshen commercially. In 1858 he first moved to Twin Lakes and then to Salisbury, where he worked in the iron smelting. Politically, Miles was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1877 and 1879 he was a member of the Senate of Connecticut. In the congressional elections of 1878 he was in the fourth electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1879, the successor to the Democrats Levi Warner. After a re-election in 1880 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two coherent legislative periods. In 1882 he declined a re- nomination by his party.

In the congressional elections of 1888, he returned to the political stage. As a candidate of his party, he was again elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he spent between 4 March 1889, March 3, 1891 as the successor to the Democrats Miles T. Granger, a further term of office. In the elections of 1890 he was defeated Robert E. De Forest. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Miles retired from politics and devoted himself to his private and business matters. He died on 20 November 1896 in near Salisbury, where he was also buried.