sentences:  He was chosen to be a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention.He was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1890 and 1891.
  
  in 1892, his bid to become a judge of the State Supreme Court failed.However, three years later Miller won election to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899), he was not a candidate for renomination in 1898.