Samuel F. Miller (US politician)
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Samuel Franklin Miller (27 May 1827 - 16 March 1892) was a United States Representative from New York
New York
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during the latter half of the American Civil War
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.
Miller was born in Franklin
Franklin (town), New York
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, Delaware County
Delaware County, New York
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, New York
New York
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on 27 May 1827. He graduated from the Delaware Literary Institute
Delaware Literary Institute
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and Hamilton College, Clinton
Clinton, Oneida County, New York
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, N.Y., in 1852; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853, but did not engage in extensive practice; engaged in farming and lumbering; member of the State assembly in 1854; served as a colonel in the State militia; elected as a Republican
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to the Thirty-eighth Congress
38th United States Congress
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(4 March 1863 - 3 March 1865); member of the State constitutional convention in 1867; district collector of internal revenue 1869 - 1873; member of the State board of charities 1869 - 1877; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress
44th United States Congress
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(4 March 1875 - 3 March 1877); continued agricultural pursuits and lumbering; died in Franklin, N.Y., on 16 March 1892; interment in Ouleout Valley Cemetery.