James Monroe Miller

James Monroe Miller ( born May 6, 1852 in Three Springs, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † January 20, 1926 in Council Grove, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1911 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Miller attended the district school in his hometown and then the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport (Pennsylvania). In 1875 he moved to Skiddy in Morris County, Kansas. In neighboring Council Grove, he was School Board for two terms, at the same time he studied law. After his made ​​in 1879 admitted to the bar he began in Council Grove to work in his new profession.

In the years 1880, 1884 and 1886, Miller was chosen in each case to the District Attorney for the Morris County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1894 and 1895 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kansas. In the congressional elections of 1898 he was in the fourth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Curtis on March 4, 1899. After he was re-elected five times, he was able to complete in 1911 six legislatures in Congress until March 3. From 1905 to 1909 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims to the federal government and from 1909 to 1911 he was an electoral committee ( Committee on Elections No.. 2). In 1910 he applied unsuccessfully to re- nomination by his party.

After the end of his time in Congress, James Miller worked again as a lawyer in Council Grove. He is also passed in 1926.