Stephen Columbus Millard (January 14, 1841 – June 21, 1914) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Millard attended Powers Institute and graduated from

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in 1865. He attended Harvard Law School. He was

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of the State of New York in May 1867 and commenced practice in Binghamton. He served as chairman of the Republican county committee from 1872 to 1879. Millard was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886. He resumed the practice of law in

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, where he died June 21, 1914, being interred in Spring Forest Cemetery.

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