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Miller, Stephen Decatur

lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born in May, 1787. in Waxsaw settlement, S. C. He served in the South Carolina senate in 1822; represented his native state in the lower house of congress from 1814 to 1819; and was governor of South Carolina from 1828 to 1830. He was elected a senator in congress for the term from 1831 to 1837, but resigned on account of his health at the end of two years. He died March 8, 1838, in Raymond, Miss.