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George Miller Jr.
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George Miller Jr. (January 7, 1914 – January 1, 1969) was an American Democratic politician who served as a California State Assemblyman from 1947 to 1949 and a California State Senator from 1949 to 1969. He was a leader of the liberal wing of the California Democratic Party in the early 1950s when the Republican Party dominated state government. Miller was the father of U.S. Representative George Miller III.
Miller was a native Californian, educated at St. Mary's College in Contra Costa County, where he began his political career. Elected to the state Assembly in 1946, he served one term there before being elected to the state Senate in 1948. Miller ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1950, losing his bid for the nomination as running mate to gubernatorial nominee James Roosevelt. Together with U.S. Senate nominee Helen Gahagan Douglas, Roosevelt was deserted by the old-line state Democratic organization of San Francisco boss William M. Malone, with the acquiescence of President Harry S. Truman and other Washington, D.C. Democrats.
The only Democratic state candidate to win in 1950 was Attorney General Pat Brown. Miller had another disappointment that year when he sought the chairmanship of the California Democratic Party. Roosevelt and Douglas at first encouraged and supported him for the position, but then double-crossed Miller, who was opposed by Malone, and instead chose a little-known man from the San Joaquin Valley. Miller chose not to contest the back-room decision. "If that's the way they want it," he said in his gruff voice, "to hell with it."
In 1952, Miller was one of the few California Democratic office-holders among the early supporters of the presidential campaign of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. The regular party organization had originally supported the re-election of President Truman, but when Truman withdrew from the race, the party professionals, in desperation, coalesced around Pat Brown as a "favorite son.
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