Arthur Lewis Miller was a Nebraska

Nebraska

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 Republican politician.

Born on a farm near Plainview, Nebraska

Plainview, Nebraska

Plainview is a city in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Norfolk, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,353 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Plainview is located at ....

, he graduated from the Plainview High School in 1911 and from Loyola Medical School

Loyola University Chicago

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 in Chicago

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 in 1918. He then taught rural school in Plainview from 1911 to 1913. He was a member of the United States Medical Reserve Corps

Medical Reserve Corps

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. He was a surgeon and practiced medicine in Kimball, Nebraska

Kimball, Nebraska

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 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

Dwight Griswold

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 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

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. During his time in the Eighty-third congress he was the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

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

Saline water

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 in the Department of the Interior from February 1959 to January 1961. He died in Chevy Chase, Maryland

Chevy Chase, Maryland

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, and is buried in Parklawn Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland

Rockville, Maryland

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External links

• Arthur Lewis Miller papers at Nebraska State Historical Society
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