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MILLER, Clement Woodnutt, (nephew of Thomas W. Miller),
a Representative from California; born in Wilmington, Del., October 28, 1916;
graduated from Lawrenceville (N.J.) School, from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1940,
and from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1946; enlisted in the United
States Army in 1940; 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; became landscape consultant in 1954; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; 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, Calif., October 7, 1962; elected posthumously to the Eighty-eighth Congress; interment
in Point Reyes National Seashore Park, north of San Francisco, Calif.
BibliographyMiller, Clem. Member of the House: Letters of
a Congressman. Edited with additional text by John W. Baker. New York: Scribner, 1962.
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