Arthur L. Miller

American politician (1892–1967)

For other people named Arthur Miller, see Arthur Miller (disambiguation).

Arthur L. Miller

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Nebraska's 4th district
In office
January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959
Preceded by| Carl T. Curtis
Succeeded by| Donald F. McGinley
Member of the Nebraska Legislature
In office
1937–1941
Personal details
Born|

Arthur Lewis Miller

(1892-05-24)May 24, 1892
Plainview, Nebraska, U.S.
Died| March 16, 1967(1967-03-16) (aged 74)
Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.
Political party| Republican
Alma mater| Loyola University Chicago

Arthur Lewis Miller (May 24, 1892 – March 16, 1967) was a Nebraska Republican politician.

Born on a farm near Plainview, Nebraska, he graduated from the Plainview High School in 1911. He then taught rural school in Plainview from 1911 to 1913. He then studied at Loyola Medical School in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1918. He was a member of the United States Medical Reserve Corps. He was a surgeon and practiced medicine in Kimball, Nebraska from 1919 to 1942.

He was also a farmer and the mayor of Kimball in 1933 and 1934. He was a member of the Nebraska unicameral legislature from 1937 to 1941. He ran against Dwight Griswold and lost in the Republican gubernatorial primary of 1940. Dwight Griswold then went on to become governor of Nebraska. He was the state health director in 1941 and 1942. In 1942 he gave up his medical practices and ran for the Seventy-eighth Congress. He was elected and then was reelected seven times (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959) to represent Nebraska's 4th district in the House of Representatives as a Republican. Miller voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.[1] During his time in the Eighty-third Congress, he was the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

In 1944 Rep. Miller released private political correspondence he had exchanged with General Douglas MacArthur. Some experts felt it ruined any chance for MacArthur to receive the Republican presidential nomination that year as MacArthur had not intended for his comments to be made public. [citation needed]

He authored the Sexual Psychopath Law in 1948 for DC, nicknamed the “Miller Law”, and which made sodomy punishable by twenty years in prison. Additionally those arrested had to undergo psychiatric assessment and if they were regarded as not having control of their (homosexual) sexual impulses then they could be detained indefinitely in the criminal ward of the Washington psychiatric hospital until “recovered” and without recourse first to the courts.[2] Miller worked to purge gay people from US government employment during the lavender scare, saying homosexuals were "not to be trusted" because they were susceptible to blackmail by communists.[3]

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. He then became the director of the Office of Saline Water in the Department of the Interior from February 1959 to January 1961. He died in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and is buried in Parklawn Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland.

## References

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1. ^ "HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957". GovTrack.us.
2. ^ Lilian Federman, “The Gay Revolution
3. ^ Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare. The University of Chicago Press. p. 29\. ISBN 0226825728. OCLC 52197376.

1. "Miller, Arthur Lewis". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on February 6, 2006. Retrieved January 18, 2006.
2. "Miller, Arthur Lewis". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 18, 2006.

* This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Preceded by

Carl T. Curtis (R)

|  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Nebraska's 4th congressional district
January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959  | Succeeded by

Donald Francis McGinley (D)

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John R. Murdock
Arizona

|  Chairman of House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
1953–1955  | Succeeded by

Clair Engle
California

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| 78th |

Senate:

* ▌H. Butler (R)
* ▌K. Wherry (R)

House:

* ▌K. Stefan (R)
* ▌C. Curtis (R)
* ▌H. Buffett (R)
* ▌A. Miller (R)

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Senate:

* ▌H. Butler (R)
* ▌K. Wherry (R)

House:

* ▌K. Stefan (R)
* ▌C. Curtis (R)
* ▌H. Buffett (R)
* ▌A. Miller (R)

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* ▌H. Butler (R)
* ▌K. Wherry (R)

House:

* ▌K. Stefan (R)
* ▌C. Curtis (R)
* ▌H. Buffett (R)
* ▌A. Miller (R)

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* ▌K. Stefan (R)
* ▌C. Curtis (R)
* ▌A. Miller (R)
* ▌H. Buffett (R)
* ▌B. Harrison (R)

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Senate:

* ▌H. Butler (R)
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* ▌R. Hruska (R)
* ▌H. Abel (R)
* ▌C. Curtis (R)

House:

* ▌C. Curtis (R)
* ▌A. Miller (R)
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84th |

Senate:

* ▌R. Hruska (R)
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House:

* ▌A. Miller (R)
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* ▌J. Chase (R)
* ▌P. Weaver (R)

85th |

Senate:

* ▌R. Hruska (R)
* ▌C. Curtis (R)

House:

* ▌A. Miller (R)
* ▌B. Harrison (R)
* ▌P. Weaver (R)
* ▌G. Cunningham (R)

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