Jack Miller (politician)

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Jack Miller

Jack Richard Miller (born June 6, 1916 in Chicago , Illinois , †  August 29, 1994 in Temple Terrace , Florida ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Iowa in the US Senate .

Life

Born in Chicago, Miller moved to Sioux City , Iowa in 1932 . He then attended temporarily the Oratory School in Oxfordshire , England ; back in the United States, he received a bachelor's degree from Creighton University in Omaha in 1938 and a master's degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington the following year .

During World War II , Miller was a member of the United States Army Air Corps and served with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . He was deployed in Asia, but temporarily also performed his service at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth ( Kansas ) and at the Air Force Headquarters in Washington. After the war, he graduated from Columbia University in 1946 with a law degree in 1946 and subsequently completed postgraduate studies at the University of Iowa . From 1947 to 1948 he was a lawyer with the Internal Revenue Service , then for a year as a university assistant at the Law School of the University of Notre Dame . Eventually he returned to Sioux City and ran a law firm there.

Public offices

In 1955, Jack Miller was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives; In 1957 he moved to the State Senate . Finally, in 1960, he was elected to the US Senate in Washington. He defeated the incumbent Democratic governor Herschel Loveless and thus succeeded the no longer candidate Thomas E. Martin . In 1966 he was confirmed, in 1972 he was defeated by the Democrat Dick Clark .

After serving in the Senate, Miller was named a judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals by US President Richard Nixon in 1973. On October 1, 1982 he then took office as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District of Washington DC; on June 6, 1985 he switched to senior status and thus effectively retired. Miller spent the last years of his life in Florida, where he died in 1994. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

  • Jack Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Jack Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1994
Place of death Temple Terrace , Florida