Miller received a common school education, and then attended and graduated Beach Grove Academy in Ashland, Kentucky.

[1] Miller served as clerk for the Circuit Court of Cabell County from 1860 to January 1873.

Initially, Miller ran in the 1884 West Virginia gubernatorial election, but dropped his campaign before the Democratic Convention, and backed the nominee, Emanuel Willis Wilson.

[1] Miller died on February 22, 1921, in a hospital in Huntington, West Virginia.

[3] This biography of a person who has held a non-elected position in the federal government of the United States is a stub.