Orrin Larrabee Miller

Orrin Larrabee Miller ( born January 11, 1856 in Newburgh, Penobscot County, Maine; † 11 September 1926 in Kansas City, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Orrin Miller attended primary school in his native Maine and Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield. After studying law and its made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar he began in Bangor to work in his new profession. In the same year he transferred his residence and his law firm to Kansas City. Between 1887 and 1891 Miller was district judge in the 29th Judicial District of his new home state. He then worked again as a lawyer. For many years he was a legal adviser to several large railway companies.

Politically Miller was a member of the Republican Party. In 1894 he was in the second district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1895 on the succession of Democrat Horace Ladd Moore, whom he had defeated in the election. Since he declined a re- nomination in 1896, Miller was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1897. After the end of his political activities in the federal capital Miller again worked as a lawyer. He died in September 1926 in Kansas City and was also buried there.