Warner Miller

Warner Miller

Warner Miller (born  August 12, 1838 in Hannibal , Oswego County , New York , †  March 21, 1918 in New York City ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of New York in both chambers of Congress .

Life

As a child, Miller attended public schools and a private school in Charlottesville before graduating from Union College in Schenectady in 1860 . He later became a lecturer in Latin and Greek at a college in Fort Edward .

At the Civil War Miller took off in 1861, first as a volunteer with the rank of Private in part; he belonged to a cavalry regiment from New York. He was later promoted to lieutenant . During the Battle of Winchester he was taken prisoner in Confederacy ; he was exchanged and then honorably discharged from the army.

After returning from the war, Miller first worked in agriculture. He started a wood pulp company and developed new paper making techniques. He later served as president of the American Paper & Pulp Association .

Public offices

Republican Warner was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1873 to 1876 . In 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he remained after re-election until his resignation on July 26, 1881. Miller moved to the Senate within Congress the following day ; there he took the place of the resigned Thomas C. Platt . After a failed re-election attempt, he left the Senate on March 3, 1887, where he was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry .

A return to politics failed in 1888 when he unsuccessfully applied for the office of governor of New York. With 48 percent of the vote, he was only slightly defeated by the Democratic incumbent David B. Hill (49.5 percent). In 1906 Miller was then chairman of a special tax commission for New York State before he retired from public life and retired in Herkimer .

Web links

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