John Millson Explained

John Singleton Millson
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State:Virginia
District:2nd
Term Start:March 4, 1853
Term End:March 3, 1861
Preceded:Richard K. Meade
Succeeded:James H. Platt, Jr.
(1870)
State2:Virginia
District2:1st
Party:Democratic
Term Start2:March 4, 1849
Term End2:March 3, 1853
Preceded2:Archibald Atkinson
Succeeded2:Thomas H. Bayly
Office3:Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
Term3:March 4, 1851  - March 3, 1853
Predecessor3:Loren P. Waldo
Successor3:William Montgomery Churchwell
Birth Date:1 October 1808
Birth Place:Norfolk, Virginia
Death Place:Norfolk, Virginia
Occupation:Attorney

John Singleton Millson (October 1, 1808  - March 1, 1874) was an American lawyer and politician who served six consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Virginia from 1849 to 1861.

Biography

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Millson pursued an academic course.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Norfolk.

Congress

Millson was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1849  - March 3, 1861).He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Thirty-second Congress).

He is notable as of one of only two Southern Democrats to have voted against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the other being Thomas Hart Benton.

Later career

After leaving Congress. Millson resumed the practice of law.He died in Norfolk, Virginia, March 1, 1874.He was interred in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Electoral history