- James C. Miller III
James C. Miller III (born
June 25 ,1942 inAtlanta , Georgia) is a former U.S. government official and economist who served as chairman of theFederal Trade Commission between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for PresidentRonald Reagan between 1985 and 1988. He also ran forUnited States Senate inVirginia , losing the Republican nomination at the convention toOliver North in 1994 and losing the nomination in the primary to John Warner in 1996.Miller was born in Atlanta and grew up in
Conyers, Georgia . He earned aB.B.A. ineconomics from theUniversity of Georgia in 1964 and aPh.D. ineconomics from theUniversity of Virginia in 1969.Between 1977 and 1981, Miller was a Resident Scholar at the Center for the Study of Government Regulation at the
American Enterprise Institute . From 1978 to 1981, he served as co-director of the center.Miller was the first Administrator of the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (April - October 1981) and the Executive Director of Vice PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush 's Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. From 1981 to 1985, he chaired theFederal Trade Commission . From October 1985 to October 1988, Miller was director of theUnited States Office of Management and Budget .He has been John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow at the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation and at the [http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/ Center for Study of Public Choice] at
George Mason University . He is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) of theHoover Institution atStanford University . [http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/miller.html]He has been counselor to and a board member of
Citizens for a Sound Economy [http://www.cse.org/know/board/jmiller.html] (1988-2002), a Member of the Boards of theTax Foundation and theProgress and Freedom Foundation [http://www.pff.org/news/news/2002/061802miller.html] , and a member of the Board of Visitors ofGeorge Mason University and the U.S. Air Force Academy. In addition, Miller has been a Director of LECG Economics-Finance, a Member of the Board of Independence Air, a Member of the Board ofWashington Mutual Investors Fund, a Member of the Board of the Tax-Exempt Fund of Maryland, a Member of the Board of the Tax-Exempt Fund of Virginia, a Member of the Board of theJ.P. Morgan Value Opportunities Fund, a Member of the Board of Clean Energy, a consultant toFreddie Mac , and Chairman of the Board of Economic Impact Analysts, Inc. (family-held consulting firm). [http://www.cse.org/reports/miller_march02.doc]From 2003 to 2006, Miller was chairman (or chairman emeritus) of the Capital Analysis Group (CapAnalysis), a division of the international law firm
Howrey LLP . Currently, he is a senior advisor to international law firm ofHusch Blackwell Sanders (merger dated March 1, 2008) [http://www.huschblackwell.com] and serves as a member of theBoard of Governors of the United States Postal Service , where he was elected chairman in 2005. [http://federaltimes.com/index2.php?S=593903]Quotations
* " [My budget employees] are the kind of people that run over dogs. [Pause] I meant that in the best possible way." -- attributed to Jim Miller by Page A Day Calendars, Workman Publishing, in "The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said Calendar", page for September 20, 2003.
References
* [http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/092888d.htm President Reagan's speech to OMB staff upon Jim Miller's retirement] ,
September 28 ,1988
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