Bert H. Miller

For other people named Bert Miller, see Bert Miller (disambiguation).

Bert Henry Miller (December 15, 1879 – October 8, 1949) was a politician from Idaho and a member of the Democratic Party.

Biography

Born in St. George, Utah Territory, Miller graduated from Brigham Young University in 1901 and from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1902. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in St. Anthony, Idaho in 1903, and was prosecuting attorney of Fremont County from 1912 to 1914.

Miller ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1914. He was elected Idaho attorney general in 1932, and reelected in 1934. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1936, and served for two months in 1938 as Idaho's labor commissioner. Miller was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He was an attorney in the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor at Seattle, Washington in 1939 and 1940, and was attorney general of Idaho from 1940 to 1944. He was elected a justice of the state's supreme court in 1944.

Miller was elected to the United States Senate in 1948, defeating Republican incumbent Henry Dworshak, but died of a heart attack after only nine months in office. Governor C. A. Robins appointed Dworshak to succeed him. As of 2015, Miller remains the last Democrat to hold the Class II U.S. Senate seat from Idaho.

Miller is buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.

Congressional elections

House

U.S. House elections (Idaho's 2nd district): Results 1938

Year		Democrat	Votes	Pct		Republican	Votes	Pct
1938		Bert H. Miller	47,199	46.4%		Henry Dworshak	54,527	53.6%

Senate

U.S. Senate elections in Idaho (Class II): Results 1948

Year		Democrat	Votes	Pct		Republican	Votes	Pct
1948		Bert H. Miller	107,000	50.7%		Henry Dworshak (inc.)	103,868	49.3%

Source:

External links

• Bert H. Miller at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Bert H. Miller at Find a Grave

Legal offices
Preceded by Fred J. Babcock	Attorney General of Idaho January 2, 1933–January 3, 1937	Succeeded by J. W. Taylor
Preceded by J. W. Taylor	Attorney General of Idaho January 6, 1941–January 3, 1945	Succeeded by Frank Langley
Party political offices
Preceded by George E. Donart	Democratic Party nominee, U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Idaho 1948 (won)	Succeeded by Claude J. Burtenshaw
United States Senate
Preceded by Henry Dworshak	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Idaho January 3, 1949–October 8, 1949 Served alongside: Glen H. Taylor	Succeeded by Henry Dworshak