Roger Q. Mills

Roger Quarles Mills ( born March 30, 1832, Todd County, Kentucky, † September 2, 1911 in Corsicana, Texas ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Texas in both chambers of Congress.

Lawyer and soldier

After his schooling in Kentucky drew Roger Mills in 1849 to Texas, where he studied law, was admitted to the Bar Association and began to practice as a lawyer. From 1859 to 1860 he sat as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives. After the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Confederate Army, in which he first attended as a private at the Battle of Wilson 's Creek. Later he was promoted to colonel and commanded the 10th Infantry Regiment from Texas in the battles of Fort Hindman, at Chickamauga and Chattanooga to and during the Atlanta campaign.

Politician

Some years after the war he resumed his political career again. Mills was elected to Texas House of Representatives of the United States, where he remained from March 4, 1873 until his resignation on 28 March 1892. From 1887 to 1889 he was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, where he specially took care of the issue of tariffs. Under his leadership, the Mills Bill, a bill that would reduce taxes on many consumer products such as sugar, glass, wool, or salt or completely abolish arose. After the House of Representatives ratified the law, it was supplemented by the Republican-dominated Senate to more additives that made an agreement in the House of Representatives impossible. 1891 Mills applied by the office of Speaker of the House, but was defeated in the preliminary vote of the democratic faction Charles Frederick Crisp of Georgia, the then Speaker of the 37th was.

Following the resignation of Senator John Henninger Reagan Roger Mills was elected to succeed him. He served on the Senate 's re-election of 23 March 1892 until March 3, 1899; a further term of office he was not applied. Mills returned to Texas, where he died in 1911. The Roger Mills County, Oklahoma is named after him.