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Zell Miller
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United States Senator from Georgia |
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In office July 24, 2000 – January 3, 2005 |
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Appointed by | Roy Barnes |
Preceded by | Paul Coverdell |
Succeeded by | Johnny Isakson |
79th Governor of Georgia | |
In office January 14, 1991 – January 11, 1999 |
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Lieutenant | Pierre Howard |
Preceded by | Joe Frank Harris |
Succeeded by | Roy Barnes |
8th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia | |
In office January 14, 1975 – January 14, 1991 |
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Governor | George Busbee Joe Frank Harris |
Preceded by | Lester Maddox |
Succeeded by | Pierre Howard |
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Born |
Zell Bryan Miller
February 24, 1932 Young Harris, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | March 23, 2018 Young Harris, Georgia, U.S. |
(aged 86)
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) |
Shirley Carver (m. 1954)
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Children | 2 |
Education | Young Harris College University of Georgia (BA, MA) |
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Years of service | 1953–1956 |
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Zell Miller (born 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.
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.
Miller died on March 23, 2018, at his home in Young Harris, Georgia from Parkinson's disease, aged 86.
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
- Miller, Zell (1997). Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines. Atlanta, Georgia: Longstreet Press. .
Images for kids
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Miller (right) with Al and Tipper Gore in 1998
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Miller and Saxby Chambliss in 2004

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