Warner Miller

Warner Miller ( born August 12, 1838 in Hannibal, Oswego County, New York, † March 21, 1918 in New York City ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented New York State in both chambers of Congress.

Life

As a child, Miller attended the public schools and a private school in Charlottesville, before he took his degree in 1860 at Union College in Schenectady. Later he became a teacher of Latin and Greek at a preparatory college in Fort Edward.

At the Civil War Miller took off in 1861, first as a volunteer with the rank of Private in part; he belonged to a cavalry regiment from New York. Later he was promoted to lieutenant. During the battle of Winchester he fell into Confederate captivity; he was exchanged and honorably discharged from the army following.

After returning from the war, Miller operated only once in agriculture. He founded a pulp companies and developed new techniques for making paper. Later he was president of the American Paper and Pulp Association.

Public offices

From 1873 to 1876 the Republicans Warner of the New York State Assembly belonged to. In 1878 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained for a re-election until his resignation on July 26, 1881. Miller moved the following day within the Congress in the Senate; there he took the place of the retiring Thomas C. Platt. After a failed attempt to re-election, he retired on March 3, 1887 from the Senate, where he was also chairman of the Agriculture Committee ( Committee on Agriculture and Forestry ).

A return to politics failed in 1888, when he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of New York. With 48 percent of the vote, he defeated the Democratic incumbent David B. Hill ( 49.5 per cent) only very scarce. 1906 Miller was then chairman of a special tax commission of the State of New York, before he retired from public life and sat down in Herkimer to rest.