) is an American politician. A Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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, he was elected to the Senate of Virginia

Senate of Virginia

The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 Senators representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts. The Senate is presided over by the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia...

 in 2007. He the 1st district on the Virginia Peninsula

Virginia Peninsula

The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, USA, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay.Hampton Roads is the common name for the metropolitan area that surrounds the body of water of the same name...

, which comprises the city of Poquoson

Poquoson, Virginia

Poquoson is an independent city located on the Virginia Peninsula, in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 12,150 according to the 2010 Census...

, parts of York County

York County, Virginia

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, and the cities of Hampton

Hampton, Virginia

Hampton is an independent city that is not part of any county in Southeast Virginia. Its population is 137,436. As one of the seven major cities that compose the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, it is on the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula. Located on the Hampton Roads Beltway, it hosts...

 and Newport News

Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News...

.

Bipartisanship

Senator Miller has a reputation of working diligently with other members of the General Assembly, regardless of party affiliation. He is a founding member of the Commonwealth Caucus, a bipartisan effort to put Virginia above party affiliation on important issues facing the Commonwealth. Other members of the Commonwealth Caucus include Senators Ralph Northam

Ralph Northam

Ralph S. Northam is an American politician and physician from Virginia. A Democrat, he currently serves in the Senate of Virginia, representing the 6th district. He was first elected in November 2007....

 (D-Norfolk), Richard Stuart

Richard Stuart

Richard H. Stuart is an American politician. A Republican, he was elected to the Senate of Virginia in November 2007. He the 28th district, made up of six counties and parts of two others in the Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula, and northern Piedmont, plus part of the city of...

 (R-Westmoreland) and Jill Vogel

Jill Holtzman Vogel

Jill Holtzman Vogel is an American politician. A Republican, she was elected to the Senate of Virginia in 2007. She the 27th district in the northern part of the state, consisting of Clarke and Frederick Counties, the city of Winchester, and parts of Fauquier and Loudoun Counties.-External links:*...

 (R-Winchester).

External links

• Senator John C. Miller official government site
• Senator John Miller official campaign site
• Campaign contributions at the National Institute for Money in State Politics (2001 House of Delegates)
• Profile from Virginia Public Access Project