- Joseph Millard
Joseph Hopkins Millard (
April 20 ,1836 –January 13 ,1922 ) was a Senator fromNebraska .Millard was born in
Hamilton, Ontario ,Canada . He moved toIowa with his parents, who settled nearSabula, Iowa . He attended the district school and clerked in a store; Millard moved toOmaha, Nebraska , in 1856 and engaged in the land business. He moved toMontana in 1864; through the assistance of an Iowa capitalist, he opened a bank inVirginia City, Montana . Millard returned to Omaha in 1866 and became director, president, and cashier of theOmaha National Bank ; he was one of the incorporators of theOmaha & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1869. He served as the mayor of Omaha in 1872; for fifteen years he was a director of theUnion Pacific Railroad Company, six years of which he served in the capacity of a Government director.Millard was elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate , March 28, 1901, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1901, caused by the failure of theNebraska Legislature to act, and served from March 28, 1901, to March 3, 1907. During his term he served as chairman of the Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals (Fifty-ninth Congress); he was not a candidate for reelection in 1906. Millard then resumed the banking business in Omaha. He died there on January 13, 1922, and was interred inProspect Hill Cemetery .His brother,
Ezra Millard , also served as mayor of Omaha. The former village and present-day neighborhood ofMillard, Nebraska was named after the brothers.ee also
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Brandeis-Millard House References
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