Samuel Freeman Miller

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Freeman Miller

Samuel Freeman Miller (* 5. April 1816 in Richmond , Kentucky ; † 13. October 1890 in Washington, DC ) was an American judge at the Supreme Court of the United States ( US Supreme Court ).

Life

After attending school, Miller first studied medicine at Transylvania University in Lexington and graduated in 1838 with a Doctor of Medicine (MD). In addition to his subsequent work as a doctor , he studied law and was licensed as a lawyer in Kentucky in 1847.

After a subsequent activity as a lawyer , Miller, who originally supported the Whig Party and later was a supporter of the Republican Party , became an associate judge at the US Supreme Court on July 21, 1862 after his appointment by US President Abraham Lincoln and thus succeeded the on Peter Vivian Daniel died on May 31, 1860 . During his membership in the US Supreme Court, he worked on, among other things, the important decisions on the Texas v. White 1869 and Strauder v. West Virginia 1880 with.

In 1876 he was one of the members of a fifteen-member electoral commission, which was composed equally of five members of the US House of Representatives , the US Senate and the Supreme Court, and had to decide on the dispute in the US presidential elections in 1876 . The electoral commission finally decided on March 2nd that Rutherford B. Hayes had won the three southern states (and thus the general election against Samuel J. Tilden ) (the respective party members each voted for their candidate). On March 5, 1876, Hayes was sworn in as the new president.

He held the office of Associate Justice for more than 28 years until his death and was then buried in Oakland Cemetery in Keokuk . Henry Billings Brown succeeded him as associate judge .

Publications

  • Samuel Freeman Miller correspondence and diaries , 1876
  • The Constitution of the United States: three lectures delivered before the University Law School of Washington, DC , 1880
  • An address on the conflict in this country between socialism and organized society: delivered at the commencement of State University of Iowa, June 19th, 1888 , 1888
  • The Constitution and the Supreme court of the United States of America , 1889
  • Lectures on the Constitution of the United States , 1891

Background literature

  • Proceedings of the bench and bar of the Supreme court of the United States in memoriam Samuel F. Miller , obituary of the US Supreme Court, 1891
  • Charles Noble Gregory: Samuel Freeman Miller , 1907
  • Charles Fairman: Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, 1862-1890 , 1939

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Miller, Samuel Freeman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1890
Place of death Washington, DC