Arthur L. Miller | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's4th district | |
| In office January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959 | |
| Preceded by | Carl T. Curtis |
| Succeeded by | Donald F. McGinley |
| Member of the Nebraska Legislature | |
| In office 1937–1941 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arthur Lewis Miller (1892-05-24)May 24, 1892 |
| Died | March 16, 1967(1967-03-16) (aged 74) Chevy Chase,Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Loyola University Chicago |
Arthur Lewis Miller (May 24, 1892 – March 16, 1967) was aNebraskaRepublican politician.
Born on a farm nearPlainview, Nebraska, he graduated from the Plainview High School in 1911. He then taught rural school in Plainview from 1911 to 1913. He then studied atLoyola Medical School inChicago, from which he graduated in 1918. He was a member of the United StatesMedical Reserve Corps. He was a surgeon and practiced medicine inKimball, Nebraska from 1919 to 1942.
He was also a farmer and the mayor of Kimball in 1933 and 1934. He was a member of the Nebraskaunicameral legislature from 1937 to 1941. He ran againstDwight Griswold and lost in the Republican gubernatorial primary of 1940. Dwight Griswold then went on to become governor of Nebraska. He was the state health director in 1941 and 1942. In 1942 he gave up his medical practices and ran for the Seventy-eighth Congress. He was elected and then was reelected seven times (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959) to represent Nebraska's 4th district in the House of Representatives as aRepublican. Miller voted in favor of theCivil Rights Act of 1957.[1] During his time in the Eighty-third Congress, he was the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
In 1944 Rep. Miller released private political correspondence he had exchanged with GeneralDouglas MacArthur. Some experts felt it ruined any chance for MacArthur to receive the Republican presidential nomination that year as MacArthur had not intended for his comments to be made public.[citation needed]
He authored theSexual Psychopath Law in 1948 for DC, nicknamed the “Miller Law”, and which madesodomy punishable by twenty years in prison. Additionally those arrested had to undergo psychiatric assessment and if they were regarded as not having control of their (homosexual) sexual impulses then they could be detained indefinitely in the criminal ward of the Washington psychiatric hospital until “recovered” and without recourse first to the courts.[2] Miller worked to purge gay people from US government employment during thelavender scare, saying homosexuals were "not to be trusted" because they were susceptible to blackmail by communists.[3]
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. He then became the director of the Office ofSaline Water in theDepartment of the Interior from February 1959 to January 1961. He died inChevy Chase, Maryland, and is buried in Parklawn Cemetery inRockville, Maryland.
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| Preceded by Carl T. Curtis (R) | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromNebraska's 4th congressional district January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by John R. Murdock Arizona | Chairman ofHouse Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 1953–1955 | Succeeded by Clair Engle California |
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