MILLER, Thomas M., Claiborne County, MS., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana

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 Alc e Fortier, Lit. D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

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