Stephen Decatur Miller (May 8, 1787 – March 8, 1838) was an American politician, who served as the 52nd Governor of South Carolina from 1828 to 1830.

Miller remarried in 1821; his second wife was a girl sixteen years his junior, Mary Boykin (1804−1885).

[2] During his successful campaign for the Senate on a platform of abolishing tariffs, he made a speech at Stateburg, South Carolina in September 1830 where he said, "There are three and only three ways, to reform our congressional legislation.

Mary Chesnut became famous for her diary documenting life in South Carolina during the Civil War.

[5][6] Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth, Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1992).