Clarence B. Miller

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Clarence Benjamin Miller, (March 13, 1872 – January 10, 1922 was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Pine Island, Goodhue County, Minnesota; attended the country school, high school, and the Minneapolis Academy; was graduated from the academic department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1895 and from the law department of the same institution in 1900; superintendent of the public schools of Rushford, Minnesota, 1895 – 1898; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced the practice of law in Duluth; member of the State House of Representatives in 1907; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918; member of the congressional investigating committee to the Philippine Islands in 1915; special investigator for the War Department to the western front in France in 1917; elected assistant secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1919 and was chosen its secretary in 1920; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died in Saint Paul, Minnesota; interment in Pine Island Cemetery, Pine Island.

Preceded by James Bede

U.S. Representative from the 8th Congressional District of Minnesota 1909 – 1919

Succeeded by William Leighton Carss