Warren Miller (politician)

Warren Miller

Warren Miller (born April 2, 1847 in Apple Grove , Meigs County , Ohio , †  December 29, 1920 in Ripley , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Around 1850, Warren Miller arrived as a child in the part of Virginia that would become West Virginia in 1863. He attended public schools in Millwood , Jackson County . He later studied at Ohio University in Athens . After that he worked as a teacher for a short time. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in Ripley in his new profession in 1871. In the same year he was also elected mayor of this place. Between 1878 and 1880 Miller was the assistant district attorney in Jackson County; from 1881 to 1890 he was the actual district attorney in this circle.

Miller was a member of the Republican Party . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago . He served in the West Virginia House of Representatives in 1890 and 1891 . In 1892 he applied unsuccessfully for a judge's position at the Supreme Court of his state. In 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Democrat James Capehart on March 4, 1895 . After a re-election in 1896, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1899 . In 1898 he decided not to run again. During his time in Congress, the Spanish-American War occurred . At that time, the Philippines and the Kingdom of Hawaii came under American administration.

After serving in Congress, Miller returned to practice as a lawyer. He also worked in agriculture. Between 1900 and 1903 he was a judge in the fifth judicial district of his state and thereafter he was a judge on the Supreme Court of Appeals in West Virginia until 1904. Between 1914 and 1918 Miller was a member of the State Senate . He died in Ripley on December 29, 1920 and was buried in Cottageville .

Web links

• Warren Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Warren Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)