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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn MILLER
(1781-1846)
MILLER, John, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, Va. (now West Virginia), November 25, 1781; attended the
common schools; moved to Steubenville, Ohio, about 1803 and
published the Western Herald and Steubenville Gazette; served in
the War of 1812 as lieutenant colonel of the Seventeenth United
States Infantry and as colonel in command of the Nineteenth
Infantry; resigned his Army commission February 10, 1818; was
appointed register of the land office at Franklin, Howard County,
Mo., which position he held for eight years; elected Governor of
Missouri to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Governor Bates;
reelected and served from 1825 to 1832; elected as a Democrat to
the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1842, and retired to his residence near Florissant,
Mo., where he died March 18, 1846; interment in Col. John
O’Fallon’s private vault on the O’Fallon farm;
reinterment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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