Attorney General: William H. H. Miller
William Miller was born in Augusta, New York, on September 6, 1840. He attended country schools and Whitestown Seminary and graduated from Hamilton College in 1861. He then headed west to Maumee, Ohio, where he joined the 84th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for a three month term, serving as a lieutenant. After this brief service in the Civil War, Miller moved to Toledo and began studying law under future Chief Justice of the United States, Morrison R. Waite. In 1865, he was admitted to the bar in Peru, Indiana, where he practiced law for a short time before relocating to Fort Wayne in 1866. In 1874, Miller joined the law firm of future President Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana, practicing there for the next 15 years.
Following Harrison’s accession to the presidency, Miller was appointed Attorney General of the United States on March 5, 1889. He served in that capacity until March 6, 1893, when he returned to Indianapolis and resumed the private practice of law. Miller died in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 25, 1917.
Theodore Clement Steele, born in 1847, was a native of Owen County, Indiana. He was nicknamed the "Den of Indiana" by members of the art world. Steele studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. A versatile artist, equally at home with landscapes or portraits, he won honorable mention at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Steele's portrait of Attorney General Miller was painted in 1893. He died in 1926.