Background
Miller, John was born on November 10, 1774 in Amenia, New York, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Miller, John was born on November 10, 1774 in Amenia, New York, United States.
He attended the district school and a private classical school in Kent, Connecticut. From 1793 on, he studied medicine, first with an uncle, then with Doctor Moshier in Easton, New New York In 1797, he went to Philadelphia and became a private pupil of Doctor Benjamin Rush, and attended Rush"s and Doctor William Shippen"s lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1798, he returned to Easton and practiced in partnership with Doctor Moshier. Miller was licensed to practice medicine by the Vermont Medical Society in 1800, the law on licensing physicians not being enacted yet in the State of New New York In 1801, he removed to that part of the Town of Fabius which was split off as the Town of Truxton when Cortland County was established in 1808, and continued the practice of medicine there.
He was Coroner of Cortland County from 1802 to 1805, Postmaster of Truxton from 1805 to 1825, a Justice of the Peace from 1812 to 1821, and an associate judge of the Cortland County Court from 1817 to 1820.
He was elected as an Adams man to the Nineteenth United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846.
Miller was buried at the City Cemetery in Truxton.
He was a founding member of the Cortland County Medical Society in 1808, and was its first Vice President. Miller was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1816-1817, 1820 and 1846.