Zell Miller

Zell Miller
Portrait, c. 2000–2005
United States Senator
from Georgia
In office
July 24, 2000 – January 3, 2005
Appointed byRoy Barnes
Preceded byPaul Coverdell
Succeeded byJohnny Isakson
79th Governor of Georgia
In office
January 14, 1991 – January 11, 1999
LieutenantPierre Howard
Preceded byJoe Frank Harris
Succeeded byRoy Barnes
8th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
In office
January 14, 1975 – January 14, 1991
GovernorGeorge Busbee
Joe Frank Harris
Preceded byLester Maddox
Succeeded byPierre Howard
Member of the Georgia State Senate
from the 50th district
In office
January 14, 1963 – January 11, 1965
Preceded byHamilton McWhorter, Jr.
Succeeded byRobert King Ballew
Member of the Georgia State Senate
from the 40th district
In office
January 9, 1961 – January 14, 1963
Preceded byRussell Ellis Cannon
Succeeded byDan I. MacIntyre III
Mayor of Young Harris
In office
1959–1960
Personal details
Born
Zell Bryan Miller

(1932-02-24)February 24, 1932
Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
DiedMarch 23, 2018(2018-03-23) (aged 86)
Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1954)​
Children2
EducationYoung Harris College
University of Georgia (BA, MA)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Marine Corps
Years of service1953–1956
Rank Sergeant
Zell Miller's voice
Zell Miller speaks on the consequences of the direct election of senators
Recorded April 28, 2004

Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 – March 23, 2018) was a former United States Senator from Georgia. Miller was Lieutenant Governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as United States Senator from 2000 to 2005.[1]

He wrote a book A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat. The book spent nine weeks in the New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction.[2]

Miller died on March 23, 2018, at his home in Young Harris, Georgia from Parkinson's disease, aged 86.[3][4]

Books

By Zell Miller:

  • 1975: Mountains Within Me
  • 1983: Great Georgians
  • 1985: They Heard Georgia Singing
  • 1997: Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines
  • 1999: The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-By-Day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, With Complete Muster Rolls, also by Robert E. Allen
  • 2003: A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat
  • 2003: foreword to What'll Ya Have: A History of the Varsity by Dick Parker
  • 2005: A Deficit Of Decency
  • 2005: foreword to "Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America" by Martha Zoller
  • 2007: "The Miracle of Brasstown Valley"
  • 2009: "Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways"

About Zell Miller:

  • 1998: "Listen to this Voice" Selected Speeches of Governor Zell Miller
  • 1999: Zell, The Governor Who Gave Georgia HOPE by Richard Hyatt
  • 1999: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Miller Record

References

  1. ↑ "Georgia's Miller won't seek re-election". CNN. January 8, 2003.
  2. ↑ Garner, Dwight (May 15, 2005). "REBEL ZELL". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
  3. ↑ FOX (27 March 2018). "Former Georgia Governor Zell Miller dies at 86".
  4. ↑ Stout, David (March 23, 2018). "Zell Miller, Feisty Democrat Who Sided With G.O.P., Is Dead at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  • Miller, Zell (1997). Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines. Atlanta, Georgia: Longstreet Press. ISBN 1-56352-387-6.