Arthur L. Miller

Arthur Lewis Miller ( * May 24, 1892 in Plainview, Pierce County, Nebraska, † March 16 1967 in Chevy Chase, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1959 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arthur Miller attended the public schools of his home. In 1911 he graduated from high school, he studied at Loyola Medical School in Chicago until 1918 medicine. Meantime he worked from 1911 to 1913 as a teacher in Plainview. After studying medicine Miller was from 1917 to 1919 Member of the Medical -call ( Medical Reserve Corps ) of the armed forces. Between 1919 and 1942 he practiced as a physician in Kimball. He also engaged in farming.

Politically, Miller became a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1933 and 1934 he was mayor of Kimball From 1937 to 1941 he was one of the Nebraska Legislature to. In 1940 he competed unsuccessfully in the primaries of his party for the nomination for the post of Governor of Nebraska. This went to the subsequent election winner Dwight Griswold. Between 1941 and 1942 Miller was Health Minister ( State Health Director) of Nebraska.

In 1942 he was selected in the fourth Distrukt of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Carl Curtis on January 3, 1943. After Miller was confirmed in the following seven congressional elections in his office, he was able to complete a total of eight legislative sessions in Congress until January 3, 1959. In the meantime, he was Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. In the elections of 1958 he lost the Democratic Party candidate, Donald McGinley. From 1959 to 1961 Miller was appointed director of the U.S. Department of Interior in Washington. After he retired from politics.