William Henry Miller (February 28, 1829 – September 12, 1870) was aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Miller, the son ofJesse Miller, was born inLandisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools in Landisburg and a private school inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated fromFranklin & Marshall College inLancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1846. He studied law, was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Harrisburg and later inNew Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He returned to Harrisburg in 1854 and became clerk of theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1854 to 1863. He was clerk of thePennsylvania State Senate in 1858 and 1859.
Miller was elected as a Democrat to theThirty-eighth Congress, defeating the incumbent Republican Speaker of the House,Galusha Grow. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1864. He was a delegate to the1864 Democratic National Convention. He resumed the practice of law and also engaged in journalism. He died in Harrisburg in 1870. Interment inHarrisburg Cemetery.
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