Samuel Miller
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 28th district
In office
March 4, 1915 โ€“ March 3, 1917
Preceded byWillis James Hulings
Succeeded byOrrin Dubbs Bleakley
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 26th district
In office
March 4, 1881 โ€“ March 3, 1885
Preceded bySamuel Bernard Dick
Succeeded byGeorge Washington Fleeger
Personal details
Born(1840-04-19)April 19, 1840
Coolspring Township, Pennsylvania, US
DiedSeptember 4, 1918(1918-09-04) (aged 78)
Mercer, Pennsylvania, US
Political partyRepublican

Samuel Henry Miller (April 19, 1840 โ€“ September 4, 1918) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania for two terms from 1881 to 1885.

Formative years

Born in Coolspring, Pennsylvania (near Mercer) on April 19, 1840, Samuel H. Miller graduated from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1860. He taught school.

American Civil War

During the American Civil War, Miller served in the Fifty-fifth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia.

Career

Miller edited and published the Mercer Dispatch from 1861 to 1870. He also studied law, was admitted to the bar and began his legal practice in Mercer in 1871.

Miller was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (1881-1885), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884.

He resumed the practice of law in Mercer and served as president judge of several courts of Mercer County, Pennsylvania from 1894 to 1904.

He was then elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress (1915-1917), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1916.

Death and interment

Miller died in Mercer on September 4, 1918, and was interred at the Mercer Cemetery.

Sources

  • United States Congress. "Samuel H. Miller (id: M000753)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • The Political Graveyard
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