Samuel McMillan

Samuel McMillan ( born August 16, 1850 in Dromore, Ireland, † May 6, 1924 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel McMillan was born during the reign of George V in County Down. The family then immigrated to the United States and settled first in New York City, but later moved to Niles in Trumbull County ( Ohio). There he attended community schools. He then returned to New York City where he worked as a carpenter. In the following years he attended a night school. He studied architecture. Then he went to banking transactions. McMillan was vice president of a construction company, which the Manhattan Bridge miterbaute. He sat for twelve years in the Audit Committee of the Building Department of New York City and spent three years as Park Commissioner and President of the Authority under Mayor William Lafayette Strong. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1906 for the 60th Congress McMillan was the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John H. Ketcham on March 4, 1907. Since he gave up for reelection in 1908, he retired after March 3, 1909 from from Congress.

He died about six years after the end of World War I in New York City and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.