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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaClement Woodnutt MILLER
(1916-1962)
MILLER, Clement Woodnutt,
(nephew of Thomas W. Miller), a Representative from California;
born in Wilmington, Del., October 28, 1916; graduated from
Lawrenceville (N.J.) School, from Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass., in 1940, and from Cornell University School of Industrial
and Labor Relations in 1946; enlisted in the United States Army in
1940; served as a private in the Two Hundred and Fifty-eighth Field
Artillery Regiment and was discharged in 1945 as a captain in the
One Hundred and Fourth Infantry Division, with service in Holland
and Germany; veterans service officer in Nevada in 1946 and 1947;
employment service, State of Nevada, in 1947; field examiner and
hearing officer of the National Labor Relations Board for Northern
California 1948-1953; became landscape consultant in 1954;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1956 to the
Eighty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth
and Eighty-seventh Congresses and served from January 3, 1959,
until his death in an airplane accident near Eureka, Calif.,
October 7, 1962; elected posthumously to the Eighty-eighth
Congress; interment in Point Reyes National Seashore Park, north of
San Francisco, Calif.
Bibliography
Miller, Clem. Member of the House: Letters of a Congressman.
Edited with additional text by John W. Baker. New York: Scribner,
1962.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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