Miller, George, III, 1945-

George Miller III (born May 17, 1945) is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented California's 7th congressional district from 1975 until redistricting in 2013 and 11th congressional district until his retirement in 2015.

Born in Richmond, California, he earned an A.A. from Diablo Valley College and an A.B. from San Francisco State University before unsuccessfully running for the California State Senate in a special election to succeed his late father, George Miller, Jr.. Miller then served as legislative assistant to California State Senate Majority Leader George Moscone and attended the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall), where he received his J.D.. He worked as a lawyer in private practice from 1972 to 1974.

In 1974, Miller ran for an open seat in California's newly reapportioned 7th congressional district, winning the Democratic primary with a 38 percent plurality and general election by eight points. He went on to win reelection 18 times in the 7th district and once in the reapportioned 11th district, never won with less than 60% of the vote. With his father being the former chairman of the state Senate Finance Committee and mentor Phillip Burton being an integral part of liberal politics in the 1970s, Miller has been described as the “heir to a tradition of Bay Area working-class politics.” Miller had one of the most liberal voting records in the House, and brings "a zest for political combat." A review of Miller's career states that, although he has been unsuccessful in his pursuit of top party positions, he has "learned a legislator’s virtues of patience, timing, and creativity.

In the House, Miller was a member of the Natural Resources Committee; he was that Committee's chairman from 1991 to 1994. Miller supported efforts to preserve public lands such as the 1994 California Desert Protection Act, which among other things created Death Valley National Park and Joshua Tree National Park. In addition, Miller was the chief sponsor of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992, which mandated that the federal government's Bureau of Reclamation manage the Central Valley Project in order to better protect the fish and wildlife populations of California's Bay-Delta region. Miller lost his chairmanship when Republicans won control of Congress in 1994. He stayed as the committee's Ranking Member until 2000. and remained on the committee as a member until 2015. Miller was also a member of the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus. From 2001 to 2006, Miller was the ranking Democrat on the Education and the Workforce Committee. With that committee's chairman and their Senate counterparts, Miller helped draft the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 and 2002.

Miller is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Lincoln Project: Excellence and Access In Public Higher Education. He is also serving on a number of Commissions dealing with Early Childhood Education and the need for funding for America’s Research Universities. Miller continues to be involved in a number of labor issues here and internationally.