Warren Miller (West Virginia Congressman)

Warren Miller ( born April 2, 1847 in Apple Grove, Meigs County, Ohio; † December 29, 1920 in Ripley, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Around 1850, Warren Miller came as a child in that part of Virginia, from 1863, the state of West Virginia should arise. He attended the public schools in Millwood in Jackson County. Later he studied at Ohio University in Athens. He then worked for a short time as a teacher. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new career in 1871 in Ripley. In the same year he was also elected mayor of this place. Between 1878 and 1880 Miller was deputy district attorney in Jackson County; since 1881 to 1890 he was in this circle then actual district attorney.

Miller was a member of the Republican Party. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1890 and 1891 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia. In 1892 he applied unsuccessfully for a judgeship on his state Supreme Court. In 1894 he was in the fourth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James Capehart on March 4, 1895. After a re-election in 1896 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 two legislative sessions. In 1898, he opted not to run again. During his time in Congress of the Spanish-American War was launched. At that time, among other things, the Philippines and the Kingdom of Hawaii came under American administration.

After the end of his time in Congress, Miller worked as a lawyer again. He was also engaged in farming. Between 1900 and 1903 he was a judge in the Fifth Judicial District of the State of after he was until 1904 Supreme Court of Appeal in West Virginia. Between 1914 and 1918, Miller was a member of the State Senate. He died on December 29, 1920 in Ripley and was buried in Cottageville.