Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller (November 16, 1870 – March 17, 1960) was the North Dakota Attorney General from 1909 to 1914, and later served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota.

Education and career

Miller was born in Denmark, emigrating to the United States with his parents when he was two years old. His early boyhood was spent in New York and Vermont. In 1880, he moved to Chickasaw County, Iowa, with his parents, and until 1894 followed the occupation of farming. In the spring of that year he read law Miller moved to Bismarck, North Dakota in June 1905. Langer was convicted and removed from office. However, the conviction was overturned on appeal, and the case against Langer was retried twice in 1935. Miller, following a recusal motion by Langer, refused to step down as judge in the first retrial, which resulted in a hung jury. The second retrial of the original charges, presided over by a judge other than Miller, resulted in Langer's acquittal; subsequently Langer was reelected governor in 1936.

Personal

Miller married Ava Mabel Wing of Iowa on May 28, 1896, and they raised four children.