Edward Tylor Miller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Tylor Miller

politician and United States Army officer

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1895

Place of Birth: Woodside, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1968

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, Referee in Bankruptcy

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Edward Tylor Miller

  • Edward Tylor Miller (February 1, 1895 – January 20, 1968), a Republican, was a U.S.
  • Congressman who represented the Maryland's 1st congressional district from 1947 to 1959. Miller was born in Woodside, a neighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland.
  • He attended Sidwell Friends School of Washington, D.C., and graduated from Yale University in 1916.
  • During the First World War, Miller served in the United States Army as commanding officer of Company C of the 320th Infantry in the 80th Infantry Division from May 14, 1917, to August 8, 1919. After the War, Miller studied law at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Easton, Maryland.
  • He served as Referee in Bankruptcy from 1923 to 1941, and as police and juvenile judge for Talbot County, Maryland from 1934 to 1938.
  • During the Second World War, Miller served as a colonel in the Infantry in the U.S.
  • Army from 1942 to 1946, where he saw duty in North Africa, India, and China. In 1946, Miller was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959.
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress.
  • Miller later served as vice chairman of the United States Delegation to Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1960.
  • He unsuccessfully sought candidacy in 1962 for the United States Senate, and afterwards resumed the practice of law.
  • He served as Republican national committeeman from 1960–1964, as delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1964, and was elected Talbot County delegate to Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1967.
  • Miller died in Easton, and is interred in Meeting House Cemetery.

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