Joshua Weldon Miles

Joshua Weldon Miles ( born December 9, 1858 Somerset County, Maryland; † March 4, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Miles attended private schools of his home and the Marion Academy. Then he studied until 1878 at Western Maryland College in Westminster. After a subsequent law degree in 1880 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Princess Anne to work in this profession. Between 1883 and 1887 he served as a prosecutor in Somerset County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Winder Laird Henry on March 4, 1895. As he said Republicans Isaac Ambrose Barber defeated in 1896, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Joshua Miles worked in addition to his other activities as a lawyer again. Since 1900 until his death he was president of the Bank of Somerset. In the years 1900, 1912, 1920 and 1924, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. He also spent 30 years as curator of the Western Maryland College. From 1914 to 1921 Miles was also a tax collector. He died on March 4, 1929 in Baltimore.