Edward E. Miller

Edward Edwin Miller ( born July 22, 1880 in Creston, Union County, Iowa; † August 1, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Miller attended the public schools of his home. In 1892, he moved to East St. Louis in Illinois. Since 1900, he worked in the real estate and insurance industries. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. He was private secretary to Congressman William A. Rodenberg. In June 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, to the President William Howard Taft to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated. Between 1921 and 1923 he was Minister of Finance of the State of Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Miller was the 22nd electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Rodenberg on March 4, 1923. Since he resigned in 1924 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1925. In the following years until 1942, Miller worked again in the real estate and insurance industries. Since 1942, he directed the transport department of the American Red Cross. He died on August 1, 1946 in St. Louis.