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

1. ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827908,00.html

• Clement Woodnutt Miller at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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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Name	Miller, Clement Woodnutt
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Date of birth	October 28, 1916
Place of birth	Wilmington, Delaware
Date of death	October 7, 1962
Place of death	California