This is for Bert H. Miller the Idaho senator, for Bert Miller the communist turn research director for the HUAC see Benjamin Mandel

Benjamin Mandel

Benjamin Mandel AKA "Bert Miller" was a New York city school teacher and activist who later became a director of research for the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.-Background:...

, for Bert Miller, the 19th-century baseball player, see Bert Miller (baseball)

Bert Miller (baseball)

Herbert Alexander Miller was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in the National League for the 1897 Louisville Colonels.-External links:...

Bert Henry Miller (December 15, 1879 – October 8, 1949) was a politician from Idaho

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. He was a member of the Idaho Democratic Party

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Miller graduated from Brigham Young University

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 in 1901 and from Cumberland School of Law

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 at Cumberland University

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 in (Lebanon, Tennessee

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) in 1902. He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced practice in St. Anthony, Idaho

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St. Anthony is a city in and the county seat of Fremont County, Idaho, United States. The population was 3,342 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Rexburg, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:St...

 in 1903, and was prosecuting attorney of Fremont County, Idaho

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 from 1912 to 1914.

Miller ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1914. He was elected Idaho attorney general

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 in 1932, and reelected in 1934. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1936, and served for two months in 1938 as Idaho's labor commissioner. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He was an attorney in the Wage and Hour Division

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 of the U.S. Department of Labor at Seattle, Washington in 1939 and 1940, and was attorney general of Idaho from 1940 to 1944. He was elected a justice of the State supreme court

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 in 1944,

Miller was elected to the United States Senate

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 in 1948, defeating Republican incumbent Henry Dworshak

Henry Dworshak

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. However, Miller died after only nine months in office. Governor C. A. Robins

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 appointed Dworshak to succeed him. As of 2007 Miller remains the last Democrat to hold the Class II

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 United States Senate seat from Idaho.

Miller is buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise

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