Clarence B. Miller

Clarence B. Miller

Clarence Benjamin Miller (born March 13, 1872 in Pine Island , Goodhue County , Minnesota , †  January 10, 1922 in Saint Paul , Minnesota) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1919 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clarence Miller attended his home public schools and the Minneapolis Academy . He then studied until 1895 at the University of Minnesota . Between 1895 and 1898, Miller served as a school councilor in the Rushford public schools . After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1900, he began to practice his new profession in Duluth .

Politically, Miller was a member of the Republican Party . In 1907 he was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives . In the congressional elections of 1908 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded James Bede on March 4, 1909 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1919 . During this time the First World War fell . The 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution were also passed at that time . In 1915, Clarence Miller was a member of a committee of inquiry that dealt with what was going on in the Philippines , then part of the United States . In 1917 Miller was involved in a study by the War Department that looked at the military use during the First World War in France.

In the 1918 congressional election, Miller lost to William Leighton Carss . In 1919 and 1920 he was first deputy and then full-time secretary of the Republican National Committee . Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer in Washington. Clarence Miller died in Saint Paul on January 10, 1922 and was buried in his birthplace, Pine Island.

Web links

• Clarence B. Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Clarence B. Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)