Samuel J. R. McMillan

Samuel James Renwick McMillan ( born February 22, 1826 in Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † October 3, 1897 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican) of the State of Minnesota in the U.S. Senate represented.

After attending a private preparatory school Samuel McMillan made ​​in 1846 graduated from Duquesne College in Pittsburgh. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh as a lawyer. In 1852 he moved to Minnesota, where he worked as an attorney in Saint Paul and later in Stillwater; in 1856 he was made ​​permanent in Saint Paul down.

From 1858 to 1864 McMillan officiated as a judge of the first judicial district of Minnesota. During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 he served in the rank of Second Lieutenant in the border troops of Stillwater. In 1864 he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota; later was also the regular election to that office, in which he was confirmed in 1871. Finally, he rose in 1874 as Chief Justice of the Court, which, however, he held the position for only one year until his resignation.

He renounced the judge post, after he had been elected for the Republicans in the Senate of the United States. In Washington McMillan entered on March 4, 1875 on the succession of Alexander Ramsey; he remained there after a re-election in 1881 to 3 March 1887. In a bid again he renounced in 1886. During his time in the Senate he was, among other things the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Commerce.

McMillan returned to his time in Congress to Saint Paul and worked there until his death in October 1897 again as a lawyer.