John Miller (New York politician)

John Miller ( born November 10, 1774 Amenia, New York, † March 31, 1862 in Truxton, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Miller was born about a year before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in Dutchess County. He attended the district school for a year and for a time a private classical school in Kent (Connecticut). He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1798 he began practicing in Washington County. Miller retired in 1801 after Fabius in Onondaga County - today Truxton in Cortland County. He worked in 1802 as a coroner in Cortland County. In 1805 he was postmaster in Truxton - a post he held until 1825. He was a founding member of the Cortland County Medical Society, of which he was the first president in 1808. Between 1812 and 1821 he served as justice of the peace and 1817-1820 as a judge at the district court. He also sat in 1817, 1820 and 1845 in the New York State Assembly.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams Group. In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress Miller was in the 22nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Justin Dwinell on March 4, 1825. He retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress.

After his time he took Congress in 1846 as a delegate part in the Constituent Assembly of New York. He died during the Civil War in Truxton and was then buried in the town cemetery.