Miles T. Granger

Miles T. Granger.

Miles Tobey Granger (August 12, 1817 - October 21, 1895) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.^[1] Born in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, Granger moved with his parents to Canaan, Connecticut, in 1819.^[1] He pursued common-school and academic studies, and graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1842, and there became a member of the Mystical Seven. He moved to Louisiana in 1843 where he taught for a private family in West Feliciana Parish, ^[2] and he was admitted to the bar of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in April 1845.^[1] He returned to Canaan, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in Litchfield County in October 1845 and practiced law in Canaan 1847-1867.^[1] After 1849, he was a Probate Judge, District of Canaan for fifteen of eighteen years.^[2]

Granger served as member of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1857, and in the state Senate in 1866 and 1867.^[1]

From 1867 to 1876, he was a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and Granger was elected judge of the Supreme Court of Errors (now the Supreme Court of Connecticut) in 1876 and served until March 1, 1887, when he resigned.^[1][2]

Granger was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888.^[1]

On October 21, 1846, he married Miss Sarah C. Ferguson of Sheffield, Massachusetts. They had six children, Bertha I., Samuel F., Mary F., Josie, Kittie M., Carrie Tobey.^[2]

Granger was elected State referee in 1893 and served until his death in North Canaan, Connecticut, October 21, 1895, where he was interred in the Lower Cemetery.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} GRANGER, Miles Tobey - Biographical Information
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Nicolson, F. W., Orange Judd, eds. (1883). Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.. Middletown, Connecticut: Press of Avery Rand. http://books.google.com/books?id=gqMgAAAAMAAJ. 

• Miles T. Granger at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Name	Granger, Miles Tobey
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Date of birth	August 12, 1817
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Date of death	October 21, 1895
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