Stephen Miller (Governor)

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller (* 17th January 1816 in Carroll Township , Pennsylvania ; † 18th August 1881 in Worthington , Minnesota ) was an American politician of the Republican Party . He was the fourth governor of the state of Minnesota.

Life

Stephen Miller as U.S. Colonel in 1863

Stephen Miller was a successful businessman when he decided to leave Pennsylvania at the age of 42 and follow his friend Alexander Ramsey to Minnesota. In St. Cloud he founded a trading company and established himself as a politician in the Republican Party. During the Civil War , the until then inexperienced soldier of the Volunteer Infantry of Minnesota from the first regiment was private to colonel up work. In 1862 he returned from the war and replaced Henry Hastings Sibley as commander at Camp Lincoln in Mankato . There he supervised the execution, ordered by his predecessor and confirmed by President Lincoln , of 38 of the originally 303 Dakota Indians convicted as a result of the Sioux uprising .

Because of his military success and the support of Alexander Ramsey, Miller was elected the fourth governor of Minnesota in 1863 . This made him the first civil war veteran to take over this post. Miller campaigned, among other things, emphatically for the inclusion of the right to vote for African Americans in the Minnesota constitution, but was largely unsuccessful. 1866 did not run for re-election and became unemployed. It was not until 1871 that he found employment with a railway company in Windom. In 1873 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota , in 1876 he was an electorate in Electoral College .

Web links

• Stephen Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Stephen Miller at the National Governors Association (English)
• The Minnesota Historical Society