Zell Miller facts for kids

Zell Miller
Quick facts for kids Zell Miller
United States Senator; from Georgia
	In office; July 24, 2000 – January 3, 2005
Appointed by	Roy Barnes
Preceded by	Paul Coverdell
Succeeded by	Johnny Isakson
79th Governor of Georgia
	In office; January 14, 1991 – January 11, 1999
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
Governor	George Busbee; Joe Frank Harris
Preceded by	Lester Maddox
Succeeded by	Pierre Howard
Personal details
Born	Zell Bryan Miller ; February 24, 1932; Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
Died	March 23, 2018 (aged 86); Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Shirley Carver (m. 1954)
Children	2
Education	Young Harris College; University of Georgia (BA, MA)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1953–1956
Rank	Sergeant

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

Miller (right) with Al and Tipper Gore in 1998
Miller and Saxby Chambliss in 2004