Morris S. Miller

Morris Smith Miller (born July 31, 1779 in New York City , †  November 16, 1824 in Utica , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1813 and 1815 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Rutger B. Miller was his son.

Career

Morris Smith Miller was born in New York City during the Revolutionary War . He graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1798 . Miller studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was the private secretary of Governor John Jay and then practiced as a lawyer in Utica in 1806. In 1808 he was president of the Village of Utica. He became a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Oneida County in 1810 - a position he held until his death. Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party .

In the 1812 congressional elections for the 13th Congress , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 16th electoral district of New York , where he began his service as the first representative of the district in the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1813 after the district was abolished in 1809. He retired from the after March 3, 1815 Congress of.

Miller represented the federal government in the contract negotiations between the Seneca and the owners of the Seneca Reservation in Buffalo , Erie County , in July 1819 . He died on November 16, 1824 in Utica and was then buried in the Rural Cemetery in Albany .

Web links

• Morris S. Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Morris S. Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)