William Jennings Miller (March 12, 1899 – November 22, 1950) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in

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-born Catherine (née Stewart) and Scottish-born James B. Miller, Miller attended the public schools. He graduated from Cannon's Commercial College, Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1917. During the

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enlisted August 5, 1917, as a private in the

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and served in the Air Service in the 80th Aero Squadron and 1104 Aero Squadrons. Later commissioned a second lieutenant. He was injured in an airplane crash in France in 1918, resulting in the loss of both legs. He was discharged April 26, 1919. Patient in United States veterans' hospitals 1919–1931. He moved to

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, in 1926. He engaged in the insurance business in 1931. Miller was elected as a

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to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. Miller was elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the

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. Miller was elected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress. He resumed the general insurance business. He died in

on November 22, 1950. He was interred in Jordan Cemetery,

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