- Jack Miller
Jack Richard Miller (
June 6 ,1916 -August 29 ,1994 ) was a Republican United States Senator fromIowa , who served two terms from 1961 to 1973.Miller was born in
Chicago, Illinois . He first moved toSioux City, Iowa in 1932 as a teen. He attendedThe Oratory School in England, then received a bachelor's degree fromCreighton University in Omaha in 1938 and a master's degree fromthe Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. in 1939.In
World War II , Miller served with theUnited States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946, attaining the rank oflieutenant colonel . During this time his military service included the China-Burma-India Theater, the faculty at the ArmyCommand and General Staff College atFort Leavenworth ,Kansas , and duty at Air Force Headquarters in Washington, D.C.After the war, Miller received his law degree from
Columbia University in 1946, and did postgraduate study atUniversity of Iowa College of Law later that year. He served between 1947 and 1948 as an attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel of theU.S. Internal Revenue Service . After one year as an assistant professor of law atNotre Dame Law School , he then returned to Sioux City, where he went into private practice.Miller was elected to the
Iowa House of Representatives in 1955, and to theIowa State Senate in 1957. Miller was first elected to the United States Senate in 1960. In a race to replace the retiring Republican SenatorThomas E. Martin , Miller defeated Iowa's sitting governor,Herschel C. Loveless , in a close contest. He was reelected in 1966, easily defeating Democrat E.B. Smith, but in 1972 was upset by Democrat Dick Clark.After his stint in the Senate, Miller was appointed by President
Richard Nixon as a judge on theUnited States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals in 1973. He became a Circuit Judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by operation of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982. He took senior status in 1985.Miller retired to
Temple Terrace, Florida where he died in 1994. He is interred inArlington National Cemetery .References
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2008-02-07
* [http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=1644 Federal Judicial Center judicial biography database]
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