Leslie Andrew Miller was an American

United States

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 politician

Politician

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 who served as the 17th Governor of Wyoming from 1932 until 1939. He was a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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Leslie Miller was born in Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

. In 1892, his family moved to Wyoming

Wyoming

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. He served in the United States Marines from 1918 until 1919. He joined politics following his service and was elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives

Wyoming House of Representatives

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He served the final half of the late Governor Frank Emerson

Frank Emerson

Frank Collins Emerson was the 15th Governor of the US state of Wyoming from 1927 until his death.Born in Saginaw, Michigan, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1904....

's four-year term, the first two being served by Alonzo M. Clark

Alonzo M. Clark

Alonzo Monroe Clark was an American politician who was the 16th Governor of Wyoming from 1931 to 1933.Clark was born in Flint, Indiana. He was raised and educated in Nebraska after his family moved there from Indiana...

. Governor Miller was re-elected in 1935. In 1939, he was defeated by Nels H. Smith

Nels H. Smith

Nels Hansen Smith was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Wyoming from 1939 until 1943. He was a Republican....

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After his gubernatorial career, Miller served on the War Production Board

War Production Board

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 as well as the Wyoming State Senate.

As a youth, John C. Ostlund

John C. Ostlund

John Chapman Ostlund was a diversified businessman from Gillette and Cheyenne, Wyoming, who served in the Wyoming State Senate from 1973 to 1978, when he resigned to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination...

, the unsuccessful 1978 Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 gubernatorial nominee, once performed a tap dancing number in the city of Gillette

Gillette, Wyoming

Gillette is a city in and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 29,087 in 2010. Gillette is a city centrally located in an area involved with the development of vast quantities of American coal, oil, and coal bed methane gas...

before an audience that included Governor Miller.