Biography of 	MILLER, Thomas M., Claiborne County, MS., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 1998

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Miller, Thomas Marshall, is a native of Claiborne county, Miss.  His
parents were William T. Miller, born at Lexington, Ky., and Emily Van 
Dorn Miller, who was the youngest sister of Earl Van Dorn, senior 
major-general of the Confederate army, and a daughter of Judge P. A. 
Van Dorn of Port Gibson, Miss.  Thomas Marshall Miller is an alumnus of 
the University of Virginia, where he took the degree of B. L.  He took 
up his residence at Vicksburg, Miss., where he engaged in the practice 
of law and achieved some distinction; was chosen attorney-general of 
Mississippi in 1885, and served in that capacity from Jan., 1886, until 
Jan., 1893, having been re-elected without opposition.  He resigned the 
office of attorney-general and in 1894, after Sen. White had been 
appointed associate justice of the supreme court, he moved to New 
Orleans and formed a partnership with Eugene D. Saunders, the former 
partner of Judge White.  After 1899, Gen. Miller, as he is called, 
continued the practice of his profession in New Orleans and a few years 
later took his son, John D. Miller, into partnership with him the firm 
being T. M. & J. D. Miller.  Gen. Miller married Miss Letitia Dabney, a 
daughter of Hon. Augustin L. Dabney, a distinguished lawyer and judge 
in Mississippi.  Mrs. Miller is a lady of rare attainments and holds a 
high place in literary and social circles in New Orleans.  Gen. Miller 
has been greatly successful in his profession, both in Louisiana and 
Mississippi, and is deservedly popular among his legal brethren and in 
general.  He is a democrat in politics--of the hard money type.

Source:  Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3,
p. 783.  Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit. D.  Published in 1914, by 
Century Historical Association.