Morris S. Miller

Morris Smith Miller ( born July 31, 1779 New York City; † November 16, 1824 in Utica, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Rutger B. Miller was his son.

Career

Morris Smith Miller was born during the Revolutionary War in New York City. He graduated in 1798 from Union College in Schenectady. Miller studied law and was admitted as a lawyer. He was private secretary to Governor John Jay, and then practiced as a lawyer in 1806 in Utica. In 1808 he was president of the Village of Utica. It was founded in 1810 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Oneida County - a position which he held until his death. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, for the 13th Congress, he was in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he was the first representative of the district in the U.S. House of Representatives took up his duties on March 4, 1813, after the district was abolished in 1809. He retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress.

Miller took in July 1819, the Federal Government during the contract negotiations between the Seneca and the owners of the Seneca Reservation in Buffalo, Erie County. On 16 November 1824 he died in Utica and was then buried in the Rural Cemetery in Albany.