James Monroe Miller

James Monroe Miller (born May 6, 1852 in Three Springs , Huntingdon County , Pennsylvania , † January 20, 1926 in Council Grove , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1911 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Miller attended the county school in his home country and then the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1875 he moved to Skiddy , Morris County , Kansas. In the neighboring Council Grove he was school councilor for two terms, at the same time he studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1879, he began working in Council Grove in his new profession.

Miller was elected district attorney for Morris County in 1880, 1884, and 1886, respectively. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1894 and 1895 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas . In the congressional elections of 1898 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of Kansas , where he succeeded Charles Curtis on March 4, 1899 . After he was re-elected five times, he was able to complete six terms in Congress by March 3, 1911 . From 1905 to 1909 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims against the federal government and from 1909 to 1911 he was a member of an election committee ( Committee on Elections No. 2 ). In 1910 he unsuccessfully applied for a new nomination by his party.

After his tenure in Congress, James Miller returned to the Council Grove bar. He died there in 1926.

Web links

• James Monroe Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Monroe Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)