Louis E. Miller

Louis Ebenezer Miller (born April 30, 1899 in Willisburg , Washington County , Kentucky , †  November 1, 1952 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1945 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Miller attended the public schools in his home in Kentucky and St. Marys College in Kansas . During the First World War he was a common soldier in the US armed forces. After a subsequent law degree at Saint Louis University and his admission to the bar in 1921, he began to work in this profession in St. Louis. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1936 and 1942 he was a member of the Republican National Committee , in whose legal advisory staff he also served in 1943. In 1940 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , where Wendell Willkie was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1942 congressional elections , Miller was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eleventh constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded John B. Sullivan on January 3, 1943 . Since he lost to Sullivan in 1944, he was only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1945 . This was shaped by the events of the Second World War . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Miller practiced again as a lawyer in St. Louis, where he died on November 1, 1952.

Web links

• Louis E. Miller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Louis E. Miller in the database of Find a Grave (English)