Clement Woodnutt Miller

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Clement Woodnutt Miller

Clement Woodnutt Miller (born October 28, 1916 in Wilmington , Delaware , †  October 7, 1962 in Eureka , California ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1962 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clement Miller was the grandson of Delaware Governor Charles R. Miller (1857-1927), and a nephew of Congressman Thomas W. Miller (1886-1973). He attended Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Williams College in Massachusetts . Between 1940 and 1945, Miller served in the US Army during World War II . He was used in Europe. Among other things, he was a soldier in the Netherlands and Germany . He was captain of an infantry unit. After the war, studied Miller until 1946 at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations of Cornell University . Between 1946 and 1947 he worked for the Nevada Veterans Service . He then worked from 1948 to 1953 for the federal National Labor Relations Board in northern California.

Politically, Miller joined the Democratic Party . In 1956 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the congressional elections of 1958 , however, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of California , where he succeeded Hubert B. Scudder on January 3, 1959 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death . He died on October 7, 1962 in a plane crash near Eureka.

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SURNAME Miller, Clement Woodnutt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilmington , Delaware
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1962
Place of death near Eureka , California