Thomas E. Miller

Thomas Ezekiel Miller ( born June 17, 1849 in Ferrebeeville, Beaufort County, South Carolina, † April 8, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1890 and 1891 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1851, Thomas Miller moved with his parents to Charleston. There, and later - after the American Civil War - in Hudson, New York, he attended the public schools. As an African American, he sat down vehemently for their civil rights. During his time in Hudson, he also worked briefly as a news crier at a railway company. Until 1872 Miller studied at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He then returned to South Carolina, where he settled in Grahamsville. He was born in 1872 in Beaufort County School Board. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1875 admitted to the bar he began in Beaufort to work in his new profession.

Politically, Miller became a member of the Republican Party. Between 1874 and 1896 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In the years 1878-1880 he was a member of the Governing Council of South Carolina. In 1880 he was also a member of the State Senate. 1888 Miller ran in the seventh constituency of South Carolina for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. He was defeated by Democratic incumbent William Elliott. Miller put but against the outcome of the election opposition a. After this had been accepted, he was declared elected. Between September 24, 1890 and March 3, 1891, he was able to finish the now partly used term in Congress. In the elections of 1890 he was defeated Elliott, who thus regained his former seat.

In 1894, Thomas Miller was re-elected to the House of Representatives of South Carolina. In 1895 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of South Carolina. Between 1896 and 1911, Miller led the State College in Orangeburg. From this office he stepped back in 1911, after he had fallen out with Governor Livingston Blease Coleman. Then he withdrew into retirement. Until 1923 he lived in Charleston; then he moved to Philadelphia, where he lived until 1934, before he returned to Charleston.