Samuel Stephens Miller (July 17, 1850 - ?) was an American pharmacist from

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who became a lawyer. He served a single term as a

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member of the

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Background

Miller was born in the town of Christiana in

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, on July 17, 1850. He went to

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, then attended Albion Academy and Normal Institute for four years, graduating in 1870. He worked as a pharmacist in

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for two years, but had medical problems. He entered the

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in September 1872, and graduated in the Class of 1873. He worked in a law office in Eau Claire until 1877, when he moved to Whitehall.

Elected office

Miller was elected district attorney of

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in 1S91. He had held that office for six years when he was e!ected to the Assembly's Trempealeau County district in 1886, with 1,733 votes to 1,079 for

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nominee Thomas Thompson and 323 for Probitionist D. Wood. He was assigned as chairman of the

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on legislative expenditures.Timme, Ernst G., ed. ''The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin'' Madison: Compiled and Published under Direction of Ernest G. Timme, Secretary of State, 1887; p. 509
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References

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