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7 unusual facts about George Miller


George Miller, Jr.

Brown's campaign manager and political strategist, Don Bradley, was an old and close friend of Miller, whom he called "the best politician I ever ran into", and they worked closely together to "engineer" the election of more liberal Democrats to the State Senate; their unsung efforts "changed the ideological complexion" of the conservative upper house, and thus "made possible the enactment of much of the Democratic legislation" of the Brown years.

In the June Primary, Kefauver easily defeated the Brown slate and the winning California delegation to the 1952 Democratic National Convention, largely composed of Kefauver supporters, chose Miller as delegation chairman.

Roosevelt and Douglas at first encouraged and supported him for the position, but then "double-crossed" Miller, who was opposed by Malone, and instead chose a little-known man from the San Joaquin Valley.

Kefauver later lost the Convention nomination to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, a late entry into the race, but that fall, both the Truman professionals and the Kefauver and Stevenson amateurs at last united in selecting Miller as the new Chairman of the state Democratic Party.

as running mate to losing gubernatorial candidate James Roosevelt, who, together with US Senate candidate Helen Gahagan Douglas, was deserted by the old-line state Democratic organization of San Francisco boss William M. Malone, with the acquiescence of Truman's Washington.

Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline

The park is named for former state senator George Miller, Jr. and former State Assembly member and Point Richmond resident John T. Knox.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Oklahoma

The history of the denomination in what would become Oklahoma begins in the 1840s and the Indian Territory Mission was created and placed under the leadership of George Miller in 1855.


Angus Barnett

This has led to his being cast by many high profile directors, including Gore Verbinski, Martin Scorsese, Bryan Singer, George Miller and Marc Forster.

Dedekind group

In 1898 George Miller delineated the structure of a Hamiltonian group in terms of its order and that of its subgroups.

No Child Left Behind Act

It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), George Miller (D-CA), and Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and

Road Kings

Several prior designs had been tested before Williams settled upon the George Miller directed Mad Max movies as a theme for this machine.


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