Biography of 	Miller, Branch K. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by	Mike Miller December 1997

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    Branch K. Miller, attorney at law of New Orleans.  As a leading
citizen of the above mentioned city in its professional, business and
social life, lending eminent strength to her bar, Mr. Miller commands
attention from the pen of the historian who would wish to do this city
justice.  He was born in New Orleans in 1857, a son of Hon. Henry C.
Miller, a distinguished lawyer of that city, and after receiving a
preparatory education he entered Roanoke college, of Virginia and
Vanderbilt university, of Tennessee, winning in both these institutions
considerable distinction as an orator.  On three different occasions he
was chosen to represent his literary society in public contests, in all
of which he acquitted himself with marked ability.  Upon leaving
Vanderbilt university he began studying the noble science of law under
the able tutelage of his father, and in the month of May, l879, he
graduated from the law department of the University of Louisiana as
valedictorian of his class.  He at once opened an office in New Orleans
and entered immediately upon a lucrative practice.  He has a
comprehensive knowledge of state and international law, and has
conducted many cases to a successful issue.  He is a member of the New
Orleans Law association, of which he is an energetic member, and is
sufficiently discerning and widely traveled to recognize the fundamental
principle of success, that all are equal before man's as before God's
tribunal.  He is a democrat in politics and is a member of the Crescent
Democratic club.  In December, 1883, he was appointed assistant district
attorney and served as such until May, 1884, when he was appointed
assistant city attorney, serving under. the Hon. W. H. Rogers for a
number of years.  In both of these capacities he displayed singularly
ability and performed his duties with faithfulness and uprightness.  He
is a Catholic in his religious views and socially is a member of the
Pickwick club.  He was a delegate to the state democratic convention in
1883.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, pp.
255-256. 
Submitted by Mike Miller