Background
MILLER, Samuel Augustine was born on October 16, 1819 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, United States.
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Samuel Augustine Miller
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Education
Public school, northern university.
Career
He attended Gettysburg College from 1835 to 1839. He read law, was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1841, and became a specialist in land titles. Miller had five children by his marriage to a Miss Quarrier.
In 1842, he moved to Kanawha County, Virginia, where he became president of the Kanawha Salt Company. He also practiced law in Charleston, (West) Virginia and supported the Union. But when the Civil War began, he joined the Confederate Army as a private and rose to the rank of major.
From the fall of 1862 to the end of the war, he also represented southwest Virginia in the first and second Confederate House of Representatives. During his first term, he served on the Territories and Public Lands Committees and on the special committee on the manufacturing of arms. In the second Confederate House, he served on the Elections, Indian Affairs, and Army Pay Committees and on the special committee to study violations of impressment laws.
Miller considered himself a unionist in the Confederate House. After the war he fled briefly to Canada. He was charged with treason in late 1865, but later, after the charges were dismissed, returned to the practice of law in Charleston, West Virginia.
He lost almost all of his property during the war. He served in the legislature in 1874.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
Membership
After the war, Miller was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from Kanawha County in 1875.
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November 19, 1890 (aged 71) -
Nationality
United States