Joseph Millard

Joseph Hopkins Millard
United States Senator
from Nebraska
In office
March 28, 1901 – March 3, 1907
Preceded by John M. Thurston
Succeeded by Norris Brown
Personal details
Born (1836-04-20)April 20, 1836
Hamilton, Ontario, British Canada
Died January 13, 1922(1922-01-13) (aged 85)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Political party Republican

Joseph Hopkins Millard (April 20, 1836 – January 13, 1922) was a Senator from Nebraska.

Millard was born in Hamilton, Ontario, British Canada. He moved to Iowa with his parents, who settled near Sabula, Iowa. He attended the district school and clerked in a store; Millard moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1856 and engaged in the land business. He moved to Montana in 1864; through the assistance of an Iowa capitalist, he opened a bank in Virginia City, Montana. Millard returned to Omaha in 1866 and became director, president, and cashier of the Omaha National Bank; he was one of the incorporators of the Omaha & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1869. He served as the mayor of Omaha in 1872; for fifteen years he was a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, six years of which he served in the capacity of a Government director.

Millard was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, March 28, 1901, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1901, caused by the failure of the Nebraska Legislature to act, and served from March 28, 1901, to March 4, 1907. During his term he served as chairman of the Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals (Fifty-ninth Congress); he was not a candidate for reelection in 1906. Millard then resumed the banking business in Omaha. He died there on January 13, 1922, and was interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

His brother, Ezra Millard, also served as mayor of Omaha. The former village and present-day neighborhood of Millard, Nebraska was named after the brothers.

There was also a Joseph Millard who wrote science fiction novels, but there is no relation between the two men.

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    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Samuel Smith Caldwell    		 Mayor of Omaha
    1872–1873     		Succeeded by
    William M. Brewer
    U.S. Senate
    Preceded by
    John Mellen Thurston    		 U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Nebraska
    1901–1907
    Served alongside: William V. Allen, Charles H. Dietrich, Elmer J. Burkett    		 Succeeded by
    Norris Brown
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