Clement Woodnutt Miller

Clement Woodnutt Miller
Clement Woodnutt Miller
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 1st district
In office
January 3, 1959 – October 7, 1962
Preceded by Hubert B. Scudder
Succeeded by Don H. Clausen
Personal details
Born October 28, 1916(1916-10-28)
Wilmington, Delaware
Died October 7, 1962(1962-10-07) (aged 45)
California
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Katharine Southerland Miller

Clement Woodnutt Miller (October 28, 1916 – October 7, 1962) was a U.S. Representative from California, He was a grandson of Charles R. Miller and a nephew of Thomas W. Miller.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Miller graduated from the Lawrenceville School, from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1940, and briefly attended Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1946. Enlisted in the United States Army in 1940. He 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. He became landscape consultant in 1954. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Miller was 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, California, October 7, 1962.

Miller was elected posthumously to the Eighty-eighth Congress. He was interred in Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco, California.

Author of the book Member of the House: Letters of a Congressman.[1]

References

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Hubert B. Scudder
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 1st congressional district

1959–1962
Succeeded by
Don H. Clausen

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