Edward Tylor Miller

Edward Tylor Miller

Edward Tylor Miller (born February 1, 1895 in Woodside , Montgomery County , Maryland , †  January 20, 1968 in Easton , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1959 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Miller attended the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC and then studied at Yale University until 1916 . During the First World War he was a company commander of an infantry unit from 1917 to 1919. After a subsequent law degree at George Washington University and his admission as a lawyer in 1920, he began to work in Easton in this profession. Between 1923 and 1941 Miller worked as a bankruptcy administrator, among other activities. From 1934 to 1938 he served as a police and youth judge, among other things. During the Second World War he was a colonel in the US Army . He was used with the infantry in North Africa, India and China .

Politically, Miller was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1946 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Maryland, where he succeeded Dudley Roe on January 3, 1947 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . His time in Congress saw the end of World War II , the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the civil rights movement . In 1958 Edward Miller was defeated by the Democrat Thomas Francis Johnson . Two years later, he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress; In 1962 he failed with a candidacy for the US Senate .

In 1960 he was deputy head of the American delegation to an international conference on the law of the sea in Geneva . After that he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1960 and 1964 Miller was a member of the Republican National Committee . In July 1964, he attended the Republican National Convention in San Francisco ; in 1967 he was elected a delegate to the Maryland Regional Republican Convention. Edward Miller died in Easton on January 20, 1968.

Web links

• Edward Tylor Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)