Bert H. Miller

Bert Henry Miller ( * December 15 1879 in St. George, Utah Territory; † October 8, 1949 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Idaho in the U.S. Senate.

Miller graduated first in 1901 from Brigham Young University in Provo, the following year he made then graduated from the Law School of Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee). In 1903 he was admitted to the bar and began to practice as a lawyer in St. Anthony (Idaho ). From 1912 to 1914 he served as district attorney of Fremont County.

In 1914, Miller competed unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States. It was not until 1932 he ran again for public office when he was elected Attorney General of Idaho; the re-election was followed two years later. He suffered a defeat in 1936, when he wanted to be governor of Idaho, however, not been prepared by his party. 1938, he was a commissioner to the laboratory for two months the government of Idaho; In the same year, he ran again unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

From 1939 to 1940 Miller worked as a lawyer for a Seattle-based subdivision of the U.S. Department of Labor; another term as Attorney General of Idaho from 1940 to 1944 joined them. In 1944 he became a judge on the state Supreme Court.

Finally Bert Miller came in 1948 at the time of election to the U.S. Senate. He won against the Republican incumbent Henry Dworshak and took his seat from the January 3, 1949 true, but died after only nine months in office. Idaho Governor Charles A. Robins appointed his predecessor Dworshak his successor. Miller is so far the last Democrat who held the Senate seat of Class 2 for Idaho.