Samuel Henry Miller

Samuel Henry Miller ( * April 19, 1840 in Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, † September 4, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1885, and again from 1915 to 1917, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Miller attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1860, Westminster College, New Wilmington. Subsequently, he taught as a teacher. During the Civil War he served in 1863 for a short time in the state militia of Pennsylvania. Between 1861 and 1870 he published the newspaper Mercer Dispatch. After studying law and his 1871 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Mercer in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Miller was the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Bernard Dick on March 4, 1881. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1885 two legislative sessions. In 1884 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Miller operated first as a lawyer again. Between 1894 and 1904 he was Chief Judge in Mercer County. He then practiced again as a private lawyer. In the congressional elections of 1914 he was elected to Congress again in the 28th district of his state, where he Willis James Hulings replaced on March 4, 1915. Since he did not run in 1916, he was able to complete only one more term in the U.S. House of Representatives until March 3, 1917. He then worked again as a lawyer. He died on 4 September 1918 in Mercer, where he was also buried.