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legislature in 1805 as a Republican (Democrat) ; became a 
member of Congress in 1808; and was appointed associate 
justice by Madison in 1811. In 1829 he also became Dane 
professor of law at Harvard. He was the author of textbooks 
on the subjects of bailments, constitutional law, conflict of 
laws, and equity, all of which were learned treatises and re- 
ceived high rank in England as well as the United States. 
Justice Story, while on the supreme bench, did for the ad- 
miralty law of the United States a work comparable with the 
work of Lord Stowell for the admiralty law of England. 
Justice Story is entitled to be ranked as one of our best law 
teachers, one of our best law writers, and one of our best 
judges. 
Miller (1816-1890). 73 Samuel F. Miller was associate 
justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1862 to 1890. 
During most of this time Morrison R. Waite, one of our 
greatest chief justices, presided over the Supreme Court, but 
many regard Miller as the leading member of the court while 
he was on it, and some regard him as second in ability only 
to Marshall himself. He was born in Kentucky and practiced 
medicine for ten years, but then he began to take part in 
debates, got interested in the law, read it secretly, was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and began to practice law. He moved to 
Iowa in 1850, and became an ardent anti-slavery advocate and 
Republican leader in Iowa. He emancipated his own slaves. 
At the time of his appointment on the Supreme Court he 
had no national reputation as a lawyer, but Lincoln appointed 
him nevertheless, and subsequent events vindicated Lincoln’s 
judgment. Miller’s work in construing the slavery amend- 
ments is comparable to that of Marshall in construing the 
main Constitution. He was like Mansfield in that he was 
wont to sweep away precedents that justice might prevail. 
Some of his great opinions were rendered in the Slaughter 
House Cases , 74 Hepburn v. Griswold, 75 Loan Ass’n v. Topeka, 76 
United States v. Schurz 77 and In re Neagle. 78 
73 17 Yale L. Jour. 422 ; 94 Central L. Jour. 187 ; 10 Am. Bar Assn. Jour. 406. 
74 16 Wall. 36. 
75 8 Wall. 603 (dissent). 
76 20 Wall. 655. 
77 102 U.S. 378. 
78 135 U.S. 1. See also his dissent from the doctrine of the Dartmouth College Case 
in Washington University v. Rouse, 8 Wall. 439, another instance of where his minority 
position was in the course of time to become the majority position of the Supreme 
Court. 
