William Oswald Mills

William Oswald Mills, 1973

William Oswald Mills (born August 12, 1924 in Bethlehem , Caroline County , Maryland , †  May 24, 1973 in Easton , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1971 and 1973 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Mills attended public schools in his home country. During the Second World War , he served in the US Army in Europe from 1942 under the command of General George S. Patton . Between 1946 and 1962 Mills worked for the telephone company Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party until 1970 , after which he joined the Republicans . As a Democrat, he had worked for Republican Congressman Rogers Morton since 1962 . He remained on Morton's staff until 1971. After the resignation of Morton, who became US Secretary of the Interior , Mills was elected as Republican for the first seat of Maryland to his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on May 25, 1971. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death .

On the morning of May 24, 1973, William Mills was found dead near his home in Easton. The autopsy revealed that he shot himself. It was initially assumed that some deaths in his environment and the resulting depression could have been the cause for this act. However, a few days before his death, it became known that he had received a supposedly illegal payment from President Richard Nixon's campaign fund during his election campaign . Through this affair Mills saw his political career as ended. It was later determined that the campaign donation was not illegal at the time.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Time Magazine: Death of a Jovial Guy (June 4, 1973)

Web links

• William Oswald Mills in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• William Oswald Mills in nndb (English)

• William Oswald Mills in the database of Find a Grave (English)