Terry Miller (politician)

Terry Miller ( born 1942 in San Francisco, California, † 1989) was an American politician ( Republican), who was from 1978 to 1982 Vice- Governor of the State of Alaska. He was a member of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Miller came two days after his 21st birthday at a position as North Pole City Councilman. In addition, he was elected the youngest member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and Fairbanks in the Alaska House of Representatives in the same year. Then he was from 1969 to 1977 a member of the Senate from Alaska, where he was president from 1973 to 1974. Miller was Lieutenant Governor under Governor Hammond and served in that position 1978 until 1982.

In his political career he had to suffer defeats. He was defeated at the 1974 Republican nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate and in 1978 at the Republican nomination for the post of governor of Alaska. Four years later he was defeated in the parliamentary Wahls for the post of Lieutenant Governor.

He died in 1989 at the age of 46 years to a bone tumor.

Honors

Both the Terry Miller Legislative Office Building in Juneau, Alaska, and a park in his hometown of North Pole, Alaska, were named after him.

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Deputy Governor (Alaska)
Member of the Senate of Alaska
Member of the House of Representatives from Alaska
Member of the Republican Party (United States)
Americans
Born in 1942
Died in 1989
Man

Fairbanks, Alaska Alaska Senate Governor (United States) Jay Hammond List of lieutenant governors of Alaska Hugh Wade Keith Harvey Miller Robert W. Ward H. A. Boucher Lowell Thomas, Jr. Stephen McAlpine Jack Coghill Loren Leman Sean Parnell

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