SAMUEL

See also:

• FREEMAN
• FREEMAN, EDWARD AUGUSTUS (1823-1892)

FREEMAN

See also:

• MILLER, HUGH (1802–1856)
• MILLER, JOAQUIN (CINCINNATUS HEINE) (1841- )
• MILLER, JOE (JosEPH or JosIAS( (1684-1738)
• SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER (1816-1890)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1782-1849)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1795-1861)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1796–1882)
• MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (18o1–188o)

MILLER (1816-1890)  , American jurist, was born in Richmond, Kentucky, on the 5th of April 1816, of Pennsylvania-German stock . He was brought up on a farm, was a clerk in a drug-store, graduated from the medical department of Transylvania University in 1838, and practised medicine in Barboursville, Kentucky, until 1847 . In that year he was admitted to the bar, and entered politics as a Whig . His anti-slavery sympathies induced him to settle in Iowa, where in 185o he freed his slaves and began to practise law in Keokuk, and he soon became a leader of the Republican party in the state . In 1862 he succeeded Justice Peter V . Daniel (1784-186o), as a justice of the U.S . Supreme Court, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., on the 13th of October 1890, when he was senior justice . Miller was a man of great mental force and individuality, and his judgments carried great weight . In 1877 he was a member of the electoral commission, which adopted his motion that Congress could not " go behind the returns " as properly accredited by state officials . He was a prominent member of the Unitarian Church and for three years was president of its national conference . He published a volume of Lectures on the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1891), See Wm . A .

Maury, in The Juridical Review of Edinburgh (for January 1891), and Chas . M . Gregory, in Yale Law Journal (for April 1908) .