William H. H. Miller

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William Henry Harrison Miller

William Henry Harrison Miller (September 6, 1840 – May 25, 1917) was an American lawyer and Attorney General of the United States.

Early life, education, and military service

Born in Augusta, New York, one of the ten children born to Curtis and Lucy (Duncan) Miller,<ref name="CLI">Leander Monks, Courts and Lawyers of Indiana, Volume 3 (1916), p. 1168-69.</ref> Miller was named for former president William Henry Harrison.<ref name="IIAH">Jacob Piatt Dunn, Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood, Volume 3 (1919), p. 1501-03.</ref> At the age of fifteen, Miller began teaching school. He attended an academy at Whitestown, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1861.<ref name="CLI"/> While at Hamilton, he joined The Delta Upsilon fraternity.<ref name="IIAH"/>

He moved to Maumee, Ohio, and there, in May, 1862, enlisted as a private in the 84th Ohio Infantry Regiment, for service in the American Civil War, and was elected lieutenant.<ref name="CLI"/> His service ended in September of that year.<ref name="IIAH"/>

After the war, Miller moved to Toledo, Ohio, read law in the office of Morrison Waite, later Chief Justice of the United States, and was admitted to the bar at Peru, Indiana in 1865. He practiced in that city for a short time, and also held the office of county school examiner.<ref name="CLI"/>

In 1866, Miller moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he formed a partnership with William H. Coombs. Upon the retirement of Albert G. Porter from the Indianapolis law firm of Porter, Harrison & Hines, in 1874, Miller was invited to become a member of that firm, which became then the firm of Harrison, Hines & Miller;<ref name="CLI"/> the senior partner of the firm being Benjamin Harrison.<ref name="IIAH"/> Miller also served as President of the Indianapolis Bar Association from 1884 to 1885,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was "for many years... a trusted advisor" to leaders of the Republican Party in Indiana.<ref name="IIAH"/>

For many years, and particularly during the campaign of 1888, he was a confidential advisor to Harrison.<ref name="IIAH"/> On March 5, 1889, President Harrison appointed Miller United States Attorney General, sending the appointment to the United States Senate along with most of his other cabinet nominations, with the entire cabinet being "confirmed in a ten minute executive session of the senate".<ref name="Confirmed">"The Harrison Cabinet: It Was Confirmed By The Snate To-Day", The Meriden Daily Republican (March 5, 1889), p. 3.</ref> At the time of his appointment, it was reported that Miller was "considered a wealthy man, having grown rich in the practice of his profession".<ref name="Confirmed"/> Miller served in that capacity for the duration of Harrison's term, until 1893.

As Attorney General, Miller personally handled a number of matters of importance to the administration, including litigation over the status of the Bering Sea, defense of the constitutionality of the McKinley Tariff, and of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the International Copyright Act of 1891.<ref name="IIAH"/> He also managed the admission of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming to the Union.<ref name="IIAH"/> Miller also played a key role in the notorious matter of the death of David S. Terry, a former California Supreme Court Justice who was shot and killed by a U.S. marshal while attempting to attack U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Johnson Field, who had previously sentenced Terry to six months in jail for contempt of court in connection with a case. Terry had threatened Field, and Miller personally directed the U.S. marshal service to defend Field. When California authorities sought to prosecute the marshal who shot Terry, Miller asserted his authority to protect the safety of the federal judiciary, and personally argued the cause on the Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor.<ref name="IIAH"/>

After his retirement from the cabinet, Miller returned to Indianapolis and resumed active practice as a member of the firm of Miller, Winter & Elam, later succeeded by the firm of Miller, Shirley, Miller & Thompson, and later still Miller, Dailey & Thompson.<ref name="CLI"/> From 1893 to 1898, he also served as a trustee of his alma mater, Hamilton College.<ref name="IIAH"/>

Personal life and death

Miller's grave at Crown Hill Cemetery

On December 23, 1863, Miller married Gertrude A. Bunce, daughter of Sidney A. Bunce, of Vernon, New York. They had seven children, of whom three survived their father.<ref name="CLI"/> Miller died in 1917 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in that city.<ref name="DOJ">United States Department of Justice, William Henry Harrison Miller.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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