Samuel Freeman Miller
Born: April 5, 1816
Birthplace: Richmond, Kentucky
Father: Frederick Mueler Miller 1780 – 1848
Mother: Martha "Patsy" Freeman 1790 – 1873
1st Wife: Lucy Love Ballinger 1827 – 1851
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa)
Married: November 8, 1842 in Kentucky
2nd Wife: Eliza Winter 1827 – 1900
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa)
Married: February 12, 1857 in Lee County, Iowa
Children:
Olivia Ballinger Miller Corkhill 1844 – 1873
(Buried: Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Iowa)
Lida Miller Touzalin 1858 – 1942
(Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Southern Pines, North Carolina)
Political Party:
Before – 1854: Member of Whig Political Party
1854 – 1890: Member of Republican Political Party
Education:
1838: Graduated from Transylvania University Medical School
Occupation before War:
1838 – 1847: Medical Doctor in Barbourville, Kentucky
1847 – 1850: Attorney in Barbourville, Kentucky
1850 – 1862: Attorney in Keokuk, Iowa
1860: Supporter of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Campaign.
Civil War Career:
1862: Confirmed half an hour after notice of nomination received by U.S. Senate.
1862 – 1890: Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court
1862 – 1865: Upheld the Suspension of habaus Corpus
1862 – 1865: Supporter of trials by military commission
Occupation after War:
President of Unitarians National Council.
He Wrote the opinion in the Slaughterhouse Cases.
1871: Had a notable opinion in case of Watson v. Jones
1873: Wrote the majority opinion in Bradwell v. Illinois
1874: Had a notable opinion in case of Murdock v. Memphis
1876: Served on the electoral Commission that award disputed electoral votes in the Presidential election.
1876: Joined majority opinion in United States v. Cruikshank
1884: In Ex – Parte Yarbrough, Miller held that the federal government had broad authority to act to protect black voters from violence by the Ku Klux Klan and other private groups.
Supporter of use of federal board power under Commerce Clause to override regulations.
1886: Had notable opinion case of United States v. Kagama
Associate Justice Miller wrote 616 opinions in 28 years on the Court.
1889 – 1890: Delivered lectures at National University School of Law.
1890: Notable opinion in re Neagle
Died: October 13, 1890
Place of Death: Washington, D.C.
Age at time of Death: 74 years old
Burial Place: Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa
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