Daniel F. Miller

Daniel Fry Miller (born October 4, 1814 in Cumberland , Maryland , †  December 9, 1895 in Omaha , Nebraska ) was an American politician . Between 1850 and 1851 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1816, Daniel Miller and his parents moved to Wayne County , Ohio . There he attended public schools. He later worked there as a teacher. He also worked in the newspaper business in Wooster . In 1830 he moved to Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . There he worked as a shop clerk. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1839, he began practicing his new profession in Fort Madison , Iowa .

Miller was a member of the Whig Party and was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives in 1840. In the congressional election of 1848 he was defeated in the first constituency of Iowa to incumbent William Thompson of the Democratic Party . But since the elections had irregularities, Miller objected to the outcome of the election. Meanwhile, the controversial mandate was exercised by Thompson. On June 29, 1850, the elections were declared invalid and the seat of parliament declared vacant. At the same time, special elections were announced for this mandate. Miller prevailed against Thompson. This enabled him to end the legislative period in Congress between December 20, 1850 and March 3 .

After his brief stint in the House of Representatives, Daniel Miller returned to practice as a lawyer. After the dissolution of his party in the 1850s, he became a member of the Republicans . In 1856 he was one of their electors in the presidential election. He voted for John Charles Frémont , who lost to the Democrat James Buchanan . In 1859, Miller was mayor of Fort Madison. He then moved to Keokuk , where he continued to practice as a lawyer. In 1860, he ran unsuccessfully for a judge's position on the Iowa Supreme Court. In 1873 he became mayor of Keokuk; In 1894, Miller was re-elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, aged nearly 80 . The following year he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where he died in December 1895.

Web links

• Daniel F. Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel F. Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)