Miller, John Franklin, 1862-1936
Attorney, Republican Congressman from Seattle, city and county official.
John Franklin Miller, born in 1862, served as a member of Congress from Seattle from 1917 to 1931. Born near South Bend, Indiana, he graduated from the law department at Valparaiso and in 1888 moved to Seattle, where he practiced law. Miller was the first prosecuting attorney of King County after statehood, serving from 1890 to 1894. In 1908 he was elected mayor of Seattle, and in 1916, he ran for Congress on the basis of military preparedness. While in Congress Miller secured funding for the industrial development of the Puget Sound area around Seattle. In 1919, as part of a Congressional delegation, he visited U.S. forces in France and Germany. After his defeat at the polls in 1930, he resumed the practice of law and died in Seattle in 1936.
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