John Miller (politician, 1774)

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John Miller (born November 10, 1774 in Amenia , Province of New York , † March 31, 1862 in Truxton , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Miller was born in Dutchess County about a year before the American Revolutionary War broke out . He attended county school for a year and a private classical school in Kent ( Connecticut ) for a while. He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1798 he began practicing in Washington County . Miller moved to Fabius in Onondaga County in 1801 - now Truxton in Cortland County . He served as a coroner in Cortland County in 1802 . In 1805 he became postmaster in Truxton - a post he held until 1825. He was a founding member of the Cortland County Medical Society , of which he became the first president in 1808. Between 1812 and 1821 he worked as a justice of the peace and between 1817 and 1820 as a judge at the district court. He also sat in the New York State Assembly in 1817, 1820, and 1845 .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams faction. In the 1824 congressional election for the 19th Congress , Miller was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 22nd  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Justin Dwinell on March 4, 1825 . He retired from the after March 3, 1827 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he took part in 1846 as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . He died in Truxton during the Civil War and was buried in the town cemetery.

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SURNAME Miller, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Amenia , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1862
Place of death Truxton , New York