Jacob Welsh Miller | |
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United States Senator from New Jersey | |
In office March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1853 | |
Preceded by | Garret D. Wall |
Succeeded by | William Wright |
Member of the New Jersey Senate | |
In office 1839-1840 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Washington Township, New Jersey | August 29, 1800
Died | September 30, 1862 Morristown, New Jersey | (aged 62)
Political party | Whig |
Children | George Macculloch Miller |
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Jacob Welsh Miller (August 29, 1800 – September 30, 1862) was a United States senator from New Jersey.
In 1800, Miller was born in German Valley, New Jersey (in Washington Township, Morris County), United States, North America. [1] He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1823, and practiced in Morristown. [1]
In 1832, Miller was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly. From 1839 to 1840, he then represented Morris County in the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate). [1]
In 1839, Miller was elected as a Whig to the state Senate, and to the U.S. Senate in 1841. [1] He was reelected in 1847, and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1853. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses).[ citation needed]
He joined the Republican Party in 1855. [1]
In 1825, Miller married Mary Louisa Macculloch, the daughter of George P. Macculloch, a wealthy Morristown engineer and businessman who had designed and built the Morris Canal. They had nine children, including attorney George Macculloch Miller, [2] and Captain Lindley Miller, who served as an officer of a black infantry regiment during the Civil War and wrote " Marching Song of the First Arkansas".[ citation needed]
In 1862, Miller died in Morristown, New Jersey. [1] [3] He was interred in St. Peter's Parish Churchyard.