Clement Woodnutt Miller
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Clement Woodnutt Miller (October 28, 1916 – October 7, 1962) was a U.S. Representative from California, He was a grandson of Charles R. Miller and a nephew of Thomas W. Miller.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Miller graduated from the Lawrenceville School, from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1940, and from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1946. Enlisted in the United States Army in 1940. He served as a private in the Two Hundred and Fifty-eighth Field Artillery Regiment and was discharged in 1945 as a captain in the One Hundred and Fourth Infantry Division, with service in Holland and Germany. Veterans service officer in Nevada in 1946 and 1947. Employment service, State of Nevada, in 1947. Field examiner and hearing officer of the National Labor Relations Board for Northern California 1948–1953. He became landscape consultant in 1954. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.
Miller was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses and served from January 3, 1959, until his death in an airplane accident near Eureka, California, October 7, 1962.
Miller was elected posthumously to the Eighty-eighth Congress. He was interred in Point Reyes National Seashore Park, north of San Francisco, California.
