Zell Miller

Zell Miller
Portrait, c. 2000–2005
United States Senator from Georgia
In office July 24, 2000 – January 3, 2005
Appointed by	Roy Barnes
Preceded by	Paul Coverdell
Succeeded by	Johnny Isakson
79th Governor of Georgia
In office January 14, 1991 – January 11, 1999
Lieutenant	Pierre Howard
Preceded by	Joe Frank Harris
Succeeded by	Roy Barnes
8th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
In office January 14, 1975 – January 14, 1991
Governor	George Busbee Joe Frank Harris
Preceded by	Lester Maddox
Succeeded by	Pierre Howard
Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 50th district
In office January 14, 1963 – January 11, 1965
Preceded by	Hamilton McWhorter, Jr.
Succeeded by	Robert King Ballew
Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 40th district
In office January 9, 1961 – January 14, 1963
Preceded by	Russell Ellis Cannon
Succeeded by	Dan 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.
Died	March 23, 2018(2018-03-23) (aged 86) Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Shirley Carver ​ (m. 1954)​ [1]
Children	2[1]
Education	Young Harris College University of Georgia (BA, MA)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1953–1956
Rank	Sergeant
Zell Miller's voice Zell Miller speaks on the consequences of the direct election of senators Recorded April 28, 2004

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]