Edward Tylor Miller | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMaryland's1st district | |
| In office January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1959 | |
| Preceded by | Dudley Roe |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Francis Johnson |
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| Born | (1895-02-01)February 1, 1895 Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 1968(1968-01-20) (aged 72) Easton, Maryland, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Yale University George Washington University |
Edward Tylor Miller (February 1, 1895 – January 20, 1968), aRepublican, was aU.S. congressman who representedMaryland's 1st congressional district from 1947 to 1959.
Miller was born in Woodside, a neighborhood inSilver Spring, Maryland. He attendedSidwell Friends School ofWashington, D.C., and graduated fromYale University in 1916. During theFirst World War, Miller served in theUnited States Army as commanding officer of Company C of the 320th Infantry in the80th Infantry Division from May 14, 1917, to August 8, 1919.
After the War, Miller studied law atGeorge Washington University inWashington, D.C. He was admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice inEaston, Maryland. He served asReferee in Bankruptcy from 1923 to 1941, and as police and juvenile judge forTalbot County, Maryland from 1934 to 1938. During theSecond World War, Miller served as a colonel in the Infantry in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, where he saw duty inNorth Africa,India, andChina.
In 1946, Miller was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959. Miller did not sign the 1956Southern Manifesto and voted in favor of theCivil Rights Acts of 1957.[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress. Miller later served as vice chairman of the United States Delegation to SecondUnited Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea atGeneva, Switzerland, in 1960. He unsuccessfully sought candidacy in 1962 for theUnited States Senate, and afterwards resumed the practice of law. He served as Republican national committeeman from 1960–1964, as delegate to theRepublican National Convention of 1964, and was elected Talbot County delegate to Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1967. Miller died in Easton, and is interred in Meeting House Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Republican nominee forU.S. Senator fromMaryland (Class 3) 1962 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromMaryland's 1st congressional district 1947–1959 | Succeeded by |
