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| Date Born: May 8, 1787 |
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Date Died: March 8, 1838 |
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| Place Born: Lancaster County, SC |
Place Buried: Raymond, MS |
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| Residence: Sumter County, SC |
Occupation: Planter, Lawyer |
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South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) - graduated 1808 US House of Representatives, 1817-1819 Miller was the father of famous diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut Miller, Stephen Decatur, a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born in Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster District, S.C., May 8, 1787; studied under a private tutor; graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1808; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sumterville in 1811; elected to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Mayrant; reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and served from January 2, 1817, to March 3, 1819; resumed the practice of his profession; member, State senate 1822-1828; Governor of South Carolina 1828-1830; elected as a Nullifier to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1831, until March 2, 1833, when he resigned due to ill health; delegate to the South Carolina nullification conventions in 1832 and 1833; engaged in cotton planting in Mississippi in 1835; died in Raymond, Hinds County, Miss., March 8, 1838. |
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