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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoMILLER, Bert Henry
(1879—1949)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1949
Party:
Democrat
MILLER, Bert Henry, a Senator from Idaho; born in St. George, Washington County, Utah, December 15, 1879; graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1901 and from Cumberland University Law School, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1902; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in St. Anthony, Idaho, in 1903; prosecuting attorney of Fremont County, Idaho, 1912-1914; was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress in 1914; elected attorney general of Idaho in 1932 and reelected in 1934; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1936; served for two months in 1938 as Idaho’s labor commissioner; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; attorney in the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, at Seattle, Wash., 1939-1940; attorney general of Idaho 1940-1944; elected a justice of the State supreme court in 1944; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948 for the term commencing January 3, 1949, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., October 8, 1949; interment in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
Bibliography
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services
. 81st Cong., 2d sess., 1950. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Bert Henry Miller, Late a Senator from Idaho
. 81st Cong., 2d sess., 1950. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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