Stephen Decatur Miller (8 May 1787 – 8 March 1838) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-SC 9) from 2 January 1817 to 3 March 1819 (succeeding William Mayrant and preceding Joseph Brevard), Governor of South Carolina from 10 December 1828 to 9 December 1830 (succeeding John Taylor and preceding James Hamilton Jr.), and a US Senator from 4 March 1831 to 2 March 1833 (succeeding William Smith and preceding William C. Preston).
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Stephen Decatur Miller was born in Waxhaw, South Carolina in 1787, and he became a lawyer in Sumterville after 1808. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819 and as Governor from 1828 to 1830, and, in 1831, he was elected to the US Senate after promising to abolish the federal tariffs. In 1833, he renounced his political career and went into farming in Mississippi, and he died in Raymond in 1838. His daughter Mary Chesnut became a prolific American Civil War-era diarist.