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See also:SAMUEL See also:FREEMAN See also:MILLER (1816-1890)
, See also:American jurist, was See also:born in See also:Richmond, See also:Kentucky, on the 5th of See also:April 1816, of See also:Pennsylvania-See also:German stock
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He was brought up on a See also:farm, was a clerk in a See also:drug-See also:store, graduated from the medical See also:department of Transylvania University in 1838, and practised See also:medicine in Barboursville, Kentucky, until 1847
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In that See also:year he was admitted to the See also:bar, and entered politics as a Whig
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His See also:anti-See also:slavery sympathies induced him to See also:settle in See also:Iowa, where in 185o he freed his slaves and began to practise See also:law in See also:Keokuk, and he soon became a See also:leader of the Republican party in the See also:state
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In 1862 he succeeded See also:Justice See also:Peter V
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See also:Daniel (1784-186o), as a justice of the U.S
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Supreme See also:Court, and served until his See also:death in See also:Washington, D.C., on the 13th of See also:October 1890, when he was See also:senior justice
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See also:Miller was a See also:man of See also:great See also:mental force and individuality, and his judgments carried great See also:weight
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In 1877 he was a member of the electoral See also:commission, which adopted his See also:motion that See also:Congress could not " go behind the returns " as properly accredited by state officials
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He was a prominent member of the Unitarian See also: See also:Maury, in The Juridical See also:Review of See also:Edinburgh (for See also:January 1891), and Chas . M . See also:Gregory, in Yale Law See also:Journal (for April 1908) . |
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