Zell Miller

Zell Miller
Portrait, c. 2000–2005
United States Senator
from Georgia
In office
July 24, 2000 – January 3, 2005
Appointed byRoy Barnes
Preceded byPaul Coverdell
Succeeded byJohnny Isakson
79th Governor of Georgia
In office
January 14, 1991 – January 11, 1999
LieutenantPierre Howard
Preceded byJoe Frank Harris
Succeeded byRoy Barnes
8th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
In office
January 14, 1975 – January 14, 1991
GovernorGeorge Busbee
Joe Frank Harris
Preceded byLester Maddox
Succeeded byPierre Howard
Member of the Georgia State Senate
from the 50th district
In office
January 14, 1963 – January 11, 1965
Preceded byHamilton McWhorter, Jr.
Succeeded byRobert King Ballew
Member of the Georgia State Senate
from the 40th district
In office
January 9, 1961 – January 14, 1963
Preceded byRussell Ellis Cannon
Succeeded byDan I. MacIntyre III
Mayor of Young Harris
In office
1959–1960
Personal details
Born
Zell Bryan Miller

(1932-02-24)February 24, 1932
Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
DiedMarch 23, 2018(2018-03-23) (aged 86)
Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
(m. 1954)
[1]
Children2[1]
EducationYoung Harris College
University of Georgia (BA, MA)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Marine Corps
Years of service1953–1956
Rank Sergeant

Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 – March 23, 2018) was an American politician who served as a United States senator representing Georgia from 2000 to 2005 and as the 79th governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Miller served as lieutenant governor of Georgia from 1975 to 1991. After being more liberal as governor in the 1990s, he was a conservative Democrat as a senator in the 2000s. In 2004, he backed Republican president George W. Bush over Democratic nominee John Kerry in the presidential election. Miller was a keynote speaker at both major American political parties' national conventions–Democratic in 1992 and Republican in 2004.

He did not seek re-election to the Senate in 2004. After retiring from the Senate, he joined the law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge as a non-lawyer professional in the firm's national government affairs practice.[2] Miller was also a Fox News contributor. After he left his office in 2005, no Georgia Democrats were elected to the United States Senate for 16 years until Raphael Warnock won Miller's former seat in the 2020–2021 special runoff election and Jon Ossoff won the Class 2 seat in the 2020–2021 regular runoff election.[3]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NYT obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "McKenna Long & Aldridge: Zell Miller". Mckennalong.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  3. ^ "Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority". Associated Press. April 20, 2021.

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