Arthur L. Miller

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Arthur Lewis Miller (1892–1967) was a Nebraska Republican politician.

Born on a farm near Plainview, Nebraska on May 24, 1892, he graduated from the Plainview High School in 1911 and from Loyola Medical School in Chicago in 1918. He then taught rural school in Plainview from 1911 to 1913. 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 also did other things during this time. He was a farmer. He was 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. 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 in the Department of the Interior from February 1959 to January 1961. He died in Chevy Chase, Maryland on March 16, 1967, and is buried in Parklawn Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland.

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)