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
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 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]
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^"McKenna Long & Aldridge: Zell Miller". Mckennalong.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
^"Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority". Associated Press. April 20, 2021.
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Global Information
United States
United States Marine Corps
Sergeant