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Encyclopedia > Nathan Lewis Miller

Nathan Lewis Miller (October 10, 1868June 26, 1953) was a Governor of the U.S. state of New York. October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... This is a list of the Governors of New York. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries â€¢ Politics Portal      A state of the United States is any one of the fifty subnational entities referred to... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ...


The son of a tenant farmer, Miller was born in Cortland, New York in 1868. He graduated from the Cortland Normal School and studied law in Cortland. He was admitted to the state bar in 1893. Cortland is a city in Cortland County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 18,740. ... The State University of New York at Cortland, also called SUNY Cortland, is located in Cortland, New York. ...


He was a New York State Comptroller (1902-1913) and a Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1903 -1913, and the New York State Court of Appeals (1913-1915). He served as President of the New York State Bar Associate in 1920. Miller was the Governor of New York between 1921 and 1923. He was a member of the United States Republican Party. 1979 - 1993 Republican Edward Regan 1993 - 2003 Democrat Carl McCall 2003 - present Democrat Alan Hevesi Category: ... The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the basic New York State trial court of general jurisidiction. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Court of Appeals is New Yorks highest appellate court, created in 1847, replacing the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...


He started his legal career in Cortland as corporation counsel and eventually moved into corporate law and his rise in politics was strongly helped by his relationship with Andrew Carnegie and the United States Steel Corporation. Miller helped to effect the mergers that created this early mega-corporation. The merger helped Carnegie get out of the steel business and make him the richest man in the world at the time. Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. ... The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe. ...


Miller was a fairly conservative politician. He was against women's rights, telling the League of Women Voters in 1921 as Governor of New York that they were "dangerous." He even told their convention they were “a menace to American institutions.” He was defeated in a bid for re-election by his predecessor Al Smith, whom he had unseated in 1920. Like Smith, Miller was a Roman Catholic. The League of Women Voters is a United States non-partisan political organization founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during a meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Alfred Emanuel Al Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was Governor of New York, and Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ...


As governor he instituted numerous economy measures and estimated he saved taxpayers $20 million. Against opposition from New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, Miller fashioned the law creating the New York City Transit Commission. His Lieutenant Governor was former Assemblyman Jeremiah Wood (c. 1877-January 16, 1962), Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman. John Francis Hylan (April 20, 1868–January 12, 1936), nicknamed Red Mike, was the Mayor of New York City from 1918 to 1925. ... Jeremiah Wood was an American politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1921 to 1923. ...


Miller nominated Herbert Hoover for president at the 1920 Republican National Convention. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a world-famous mining engineer, and humanitarian administrator. ...


From 1925 on he served as general counsel for U.S. Steel. He, like his old adversary Smith was active in the American Liberty League, a bipartisan anti-New Deal group founded by wealthy conservatives. While still the leading partner at his law firm in 1938, Carnegie's Pittsburgh Steamship Company named a ship "Governor Miller" in his honor. The United States Steel Corporation NYSE: X is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe. ... The American Liberty League was a U.S. organization formed in 1934 by conservative Democrats such as Al Smith (the 1928 Democratic nominee), Jouett Shouse (former high party official and U.S. Representative), and John Jacob Raskob (former Democratic national chairman and the foremost opponent of prohibition), Dean Acheson (future... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: New Deal For other uses of New Deal and The New Deal, see New Deal (disambiguation). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...


In January 1952 the New York State Bar Association awarded Miller its first gold medal for "distinguished service to the legal profession."


He died in 1953 at his New York hotel residence after fracturing his hip following a vacation in Arizona. He was survived by his widow, Elizabeth M. Carmody Miller, who he married in 1896, and their seven daughters.

Preceded by:
Alfred E. Smith
Governor of New York
1921–1923
Succeeded by:
Alfred E. Smith

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