{{Short description|American politician (1800–1862)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jacob Welsh Miller |image = JWMiller.jpg |jr/sr1 = United States Senator |state1 = New Jersey |term_start1 = March 4, 1841 |term_end1 = March 3, 1853 |predecessor1 = Garret D. Wall |successor1 = William Wright |office2 = Member of the New Jersey Senate |term2 = 1839–1840 |birth_date = {{birth date|1800|8|29}} |birth_place = Washington Township, New Jersey, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1862|9|30|1800|8|29}} |death_place = Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. |party = Whig |signature = Signature of Jacob Welsh Miller.png |children = George Macculloch Miller }}
'''Jacob Welsh Miller''' (August 29, 1800{{spaced ndash}}September 30, 1862) was a United States senator from New Jersey.
==Early life== In 1800, Miller was born in the German Valley section of Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsdKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA269 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=IV |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=269 |year=1893 |access-date=2020-12-05 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was admitted to the bar in 1823, and practiced in Morristown.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>
==Career== In 1832, Miller was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly. From 1839 to 1840, he then represented Morris County in the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate).<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>
In 1839, Miller was elected as a Whig to the state Senate, and to the U.S. Senate in 1841.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/> He was reelected in 1847, and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1853. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses).{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
He joined the Republican Party in 1855.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>
==Personal life== In 1825, Miller married Mary Louisa Macculloch, the daughter of George P. Macculloch, a wealthy Morristown engineer and businessman who had designed and built the Morris Canal. They had nine children, including attorney George Macculloch Miller,<ref name="NYTObit">{{cite news |title=George M. Miller Dead at 85 Years. Prominent Corporation Lawyer Was Secretary of Cathedral of St. John the Divine. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/11/15/archives/george-m-miller-dead-at-85-years-prominent-corporation-lawyer-was.html |work=New York Times |date=November 15, 1917 |access-date=2009-11-25 }}</ref> and Captain Lindley Miller, who served as an officer of a black infantry regiment during the Civil War and wrote "Marching Song of the First Arkansas".{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
In 1862, Miller died in Morristown, New Jersey.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64642402/death-of-ex-senator-miller/ |title=Death of Ex-Senator Miller |newspaper=The Daily Empire |location=Newark, New Jersey |page=4 |date=1862-10-01 |access-date=2020-12-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was interred in St. Peter's Parish Churchyard.
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==Bibliography== {{CongBio|M000731}} *Macculloch-Miller Family Archives, [https://www.maccullochhall.org/ Macculloch Hall Historical Museum], Morristown, NJ.
==External links== * {{Find a Grave|4858}}
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