Howard Shultz Miller

Howard Shultz Miller ( born February 27, 1879 Somerset County, Pennsylvania, † January 2, 1970 in Hiawatha, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1955 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1882, Howard Miller came with his family to Morrill, Kansas. He attended the public schools in Brown County and the Sabetha High School. Between 1894 and 1899 he was self- employed as a teacher. After studying law at the Law Faculty of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began in his new profession to practice, in which he remained active until 1952. The same time he worked also in agriculture.

Politically, Miller became a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1952, he was elected in the first district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on January 3, 1953, the successor of Albert M. Cole, whom he had defeated in the election. Since Miller but the Republicans William H. Avery subject already in the next elections, he could remain only a term in Congress. To date, he is the only Democrat who represented the first electoral district of Kansas in Congress.

In 1956 he applied unsuccessfully for a return to Congress. He then ranchers in Brown County. Miller stood up for the environment and especially for the protection of soil. He died on January 2, 1970 and was buried in Morrill.