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Miller, Samuel Freeman, 1816-1890

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Personal name headingMiller, Samuel Freeman, 1816-1890
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedGeorgetown (Ky.) Barbourville (Ky.) Keokuk (Iowa) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date1816-04-05
Death date1890-10-13
Place of birthRichmond (Ky.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationUnited States. Supreme Court
Whig Party (U.S.)
Bacon College
Profession or occupationJudges Physicians a Attorneys
Found inHis Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, 1980: t.p. (Samuel Freeman Miller)
LC data base, 8/20/84 (hdg.: Miller, Samuel Freeman, 1816-1890)
Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 638 (Samuel Freeman Miller, U. S. Supreme Court justice, born April 5, 1816 in Richmond, Ky. With no previous formal education, Miller entered the medical department of what is now Transylvania University in 1836 and received his M. D. degree on March 9, 1838. Practiced medicine in Barbourville, Ky. for the next 12 years. Became intersted in politics, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Knox County on March 22, 1847. A Whig, Miller moved his family and his law practice to Keokuk, Iowa where he founded the Iowa Republican Party. Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lincoln on July 16, 1862. Served there until 1890. Died in Wahsington D. C. on October 13, 1890)
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