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MILLER, Stephen Decatur

MILLER, Stephen Decatur
South Caroliniana Library
MILLER, Stephen Decatur
1787–1838

Office

Representative, Senator

State/Territory

South Carolina

Party

Nullifier

Congress(es)

14th (1815–1817), 15th (1817–1819), 22nd (1831–1833)

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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; interment in Raymond Cemetery, Raymond, Hinds County, Miss.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Alabama Department of Archives and History

Montgomery, AL
Papers: In James Dellett papers, 1775-ca. 1870. Finding aid.

Columbia University
Rare Book and Manuscript Library

New York, NY
Papers: April 26, 1832. 1 letter. Political correspondence.

South Carolina Historical Society

Charleston, SC
Papers: Items relating to the nullification movement in Chesnut-Miller-Manning papers, 1744-1900. 5 feet. Includes personal, business, and congressional papers and correspondence. Finding aid.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Archives Division

Madison, WI
Papers: In Chesnut family papers, 1782-1896. 2 cubic feet. Includes correspondence primarily related to personal affairs and to social and economic conditions on South Carolina plantations, rather than to politics. Some correspondence relates to the issue of nullification. Available on 4 microfilm reels. Finding aid.

University of South Carolina
South Caroliniana Library

Columbia, SC
Papers: 1821-1833, 1931. 12 items. Correspondence chiefly regarding the tariff as a political issue. Finding aid. Also in Miller-Furman-Dabbs family papers, 1751-1931. Finding aid.

Yale University Libraries
Manuscripts and Archives

New Haven, CT
Papers: Items relating to the nullification movement in the Chesnut-Miller-Manning papers, 1744-1900. 116 microfiche. Originals in South Carolina Historical Society.
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