Miller, Thomas M.

Submitted by Mike Miller

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.