John Miller | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromWashington's1st district | |
| In office January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Joel Pritchard |
| Succeeded by | Maria Cantwell |
| President of theSeattle City Council | |
| In office August 14, 1978 – January 3, 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Phyllis Lamphere |
| Succeeded by | Paul Kraabel |
| 2ndUnited States Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons | |
| In office July 30, 2004 – December 15, 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Nancy Ely-Raphel |
| Succeeded by | Mark P. Lagon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Ripin Miller (1938-05-23)May 23, 1938 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 4, 2017(2017-10-04) (aged 79) Corte Madera, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Bucknell University (BA) Yale University (MA,LLB) |
John Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician who served as amember of theUnited States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the1st congressional district ofWashington as aRepublican. While in Congress he was an advocate of human rights in theSoviet Union,China, andSouth Africa.
Miller received hisLL.B. fromYale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA fromBucknell University in 1959, where he was a member ofTau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and served as an Army Infantry officer on active duty in 1960 and later in the U.S. Army Reserves.[1]
Miller did not run for re-election in 1992. Prior to being elected congressman, he was active in state and municipal governments, serving as assistant attorney general for Washington; vice president and legal counsel for theWashington Environmental Council; andSeattle City Councilman (1972–1979). Miller's first campaign for the City Council was tied to saving thePike Place Market and while on the Council he oversaw the rehabilitation of the Market. He founded Seattle's urbanP-Patch program, agardening allotment program that was first of its kind in the nation which includes at least 90 sites as of 2016. Miller led the Council in rejecting Seattle's entry intoWashington Public Power Supply System nuclear plants 4 and 5 (Satsop nuclear power plant) which later went bankrupt, and unsuccessfully sought the demolition of the Alaska Way Viaduct separating Seattle's downtown from its waterfront.
Miller served as the director,Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons for theU.S. State Department, with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large, starting in 2002. He sought to increase public awareness of modern-day slavery and nurture a worldwide abolitionist movement with the United States in the lead. Miller resigned effective December 15, 2006, to join the faculty ofGeorge Washington University. He later taught at Yale University and was named a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. Miller served as a distinguished senior fellow in international affairs and human rights with theDiscovery Institute. Prior to his time at State, he had served as the chair of the institute, and was an English teacher at Northwest Yeshiva High School in Mercer Island, Washington.
On October 4, 2017, Miller died inCorte Madera, California from cancer at the age of 79.[2]
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