Eugene Millikin

Eugene Millikin

Eugene Donald Millikin (* 12. February 1891 in Hamilton , Ohio ; †  26. July 1958 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Colorado in the US Senate represented.

After attending school in Ohio, Eugene Millikin graduated from the University of Colorado Law School at Boulder in 1913 . That same year, he was inducted into the bar and began practicing in Salt Lake City , capital of Utah . His first political activity he exercised between 1915 and 1917 as executive secretary to the governor of Colorado. During World War I he joined the Colorado National Guard , took part in battles in France and was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . After the war, he worked as a lawyer in Denver and became president of Kinney-Coastal Oil .

On December 20, 1941, Millikin was named a US Senator by Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr . He took over the mandate of the late Alva B. Adams in Washington, DC and remained there after two re-elections in 1944 and 1950 until January 3, 1957. During this time he was among other things Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation as well as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference leader of the Republicans. In 1956 he did not stand for re-election. Eugene Millikin died in Denver the year after he left the Senate.

Web links

• Eugene Millikin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Eugene Millikin in the database of Find a Grave (English)