John L. Miller (politician)

Born on August 6, 1925, in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, Miller was raised in the Panama Canal Zone and graduated from Balboa High School.^[1] Miller earned an undergraduate degree at Glassboro State College (since renamed as Rowan University) and earned his law degree at Rutgers Law School.^[2]

Miller was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1965, where he served a single two-year term of office.^[2]

Miller would be elected as a Republican to the third Senate seat of the third legislative district in 1967, beating Democrat Richard S. Hyland with 29,483 votes to Hyland's 18,454.^[3] Miller would be re-elected in 1971, this time facing Morton H. Rappaport, winning with 28,345 votes to Rappaport's 21,168.^[4] Going into the 1973 election, Miller's home would be redistricted into the 6th District, which he would attempt to challenge, but would lose to Democrat Alene S. Ammond with 24,072 votes to Ammond's 27,320.^[5]

Miller would be sworn in as Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court in Camden County in July 1981. A resident of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, he had been found guilty of allowing a jury to make a wrong decision shortly before his death, and was ordered to pay a fine of $80,500 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages on December 12, 1988, he would die at the age of 63 on January 3, 1989.^[2]