Mcmillan, James
railroad president, United States senator, was born May 12, 1838, in Canada. When elected to the senate he was president of the Michigan Car company, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad company, and the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation company. For three years he was president of the Detroit board of park commissioners, and for four years was a member of the Detroit board of estimates. He was a republican presidential elector in 1884; received the unanimous nomination of the republican members of the legislature and was elected to the United States senate in 1889; and was re-elected in 1895.
MCMILLAN, SAMUEL JAMES REN- WICK, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Feb. 22, 1826, in Brownsville, Pa. He was elected judge of the first judicial district of the state of Minnesota in 1857, and entered upon the duties of that position on the admission of the state into the union by congress in 1858. In 1864 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the state to fill a vacancy; in 1864 was elected to the same position for a full term; at the expiration of which he was re-elected for another term. He resigned in 1874; and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected for a full term, but resigned to take a seat in the senate of the United States for the term ending in 1881; and was reelected for a second term of six years.