Miers, Robert W
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1848, in Decatur county, Ind.
He is a graduate of both the literary and the law departments of Indiana university, and commenced the practice of law at Bloomington, Ind., in April, 1872. He was elected prosecuting attorney for the tenth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1875, and re-elected in 1877. He was elected to the house of representatives of the Indiana legislature in 1879, and was a trustee of the Indiana university from 1881 to 1893. He was appointed judgé of the tenth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1883 to fill an unexpired term, and was elected judge of the same circuit in 1890 and served as judge until 1896. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.