Don Miller is a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the Tennessee House of Representatives

Tennessee House of Representatives

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 for the 10th district, encompassing Morristown

Morristown, Tennessee

Morristown is a city in, and the county seat of, Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 29,137 at the 2010 United States Census. It is the principal city of the Morristown, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Grainger, Hamblen and Jefferson counties...

 and Hamblen County.

Biography

Don Miller was born on August 19, 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...

. He received a B.S. in Government & Business from Auburn University

Auburn University

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, and an M.R.E. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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He works as a business administrator for Manley Baptist Church in Morristown. He is a member of the National Rifle Association

National Rifle Association

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, the Hamblen County Republican Party, and the East Tennessee Church Business. In 2008, he was elected as a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention for John McCain

John McCain

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In 2011, he was elected as the Republican state Congressman for the 10th district, the seat formerly represented by John Litz

John Litz

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. He has endorsed Rick Perry

Rick Perry

James Richard "Rick" Perry is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. A Republican, Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full...

 for the Republican nomination of the 2012 presidential election.

He is married to Traci, with two children, Matthew and Meagan. He is a Baptist

Baptist

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