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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New Jersey

Jacob Welsh MILLER

(1800-1862)

Senate Years of Service:

1841-1853

Party:

Whig

MILLER, Jacob Welsh, a Senator from New Jersey; born in German Valley, Morris County, N.J., August 29, 1800; attended the public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Morristown, N.J.; elected to the State general assembly in 1832; served in the State council 1838-1840; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1840; reelected in 1846 and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1853; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); died in Morristown, N.J., September 30, 1862; interment in St. Peter’s Parish Churchyard.