Rutger B. Miller

Rutger Bleecker Miller ( born July 28, 1805 in Lowville, New York, † November 12, 1877 in Utica, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the 1836 and 1837 the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Morris S. Miller was his father.

Career

Rutger Bleecker Miller was born about seven years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Lowville in Lewis County. He attended community schools in Utica, the Catholic College in Montreal (Canada) and the Yale College. In 1824 he graduated from the Litchfield Law School. After receiving his admission to the bar he practiced 1829-1831 in Utica. He was manager of the 1829 Utica Wilberforce Society. In 1832 and 1833 he went to bank and railroad shops. He was 1829-1831 Trustee in the Village of Utica. Then he was a member of the First Board of Aldermen in the City of Utica. In 1832 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He worked in the years 1833 and 1834 as a Clerk at United States District Court

Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. Miller was elected in a by-election on November 9, 1836 in the 24th Congress, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Samuel Beardsley. He retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went to the construction of buildings and the railway construction. After that he managed his farm in Boonville in Oneida County. On November 12, 1877, he died in Utica and was then buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery.