Seth L. Milliken

Seth Llewellyn Milliken ( born December 12, 1831 in Montville, Waldo County, Maine, † April 18, 1897 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1897 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Seth Milliken attended the common schools and the Waterville College. Then he studied until 1856 at Union College in Schenectady (New York). Politically Milliken was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1857 and 1858 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. Then he moved to Belfast.

Between 1859 and 1871 was Milliken clerk at the Supreme Court of Maine. He himself studied law and was admitted as a solicitor in 1871, but has not worked in this profession. In 1876 and 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions respective upon which Rutherford B. Hayes and James G. Blaine later was nominated as the presidential candidate.

1882 Milliken was elected in the third electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1883 the successor of Stephen Lindsey. After seven elections he could remain until his death on April 18, 1882 in Congress. He has at times been chairman of the committee which dealt with public properties.