Pat Miller (politician)
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Pat Miller | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 27th district | |
| In office January 1991 – January 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Jim Pierson |
| Succeeded by | Jim Pierson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 20, 1947 |
| Party | Republican |
| Other political affiliations | Democratic (formerly) American Constitution (2010) |
| Spouse | Richard Lynn Miller |
| Children | 1 |
Patricia Elaine Miller (born March 20, 1947) is an American politician. She served in the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican from 1991 until 1993, and was the candidate of the American Constitution Party for Lieutenant Governor of Colorado in 2010.
Miller was born in 1947 in Peoria, Illinois, and graduated from Lowpoint-Washburn High School in 1965. A former Democrat, she became a Republican after moving to Colorado in 1971 and reading the party platforms.[1] In 1990, Miller was elected to represent the 27th district (which covered parts of Jefferson County) in the Colorado House of Representatives, serving one term before losing reelection in 1992. She ran for Colorado's 2nd congressional district in 1994 and 1996, both times losing to incumbent Democrat David Skaggs.[2]
In 2010, Miller was selected as the Constitution Party's nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. Tom Tancredo had replaced Ben Goss as the party's candidate for governor, although Goss's running mate, Doug Campbell, initially remained on the ticket. Campbell withdrew from the race in order to allow Tancredo to select his own running mate. He announced his selection of Miller on a KHOW talk radio program on August 24, 2010.[3][4] Tancredo and Miller lost the election to Democrats John Hickenlooper and Joseph García.
During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, Miller supported Rick Santorum, and she served on his campaign's Colorado Steering Committee.[5]
In 2019, Miller announced that she was running for the position of State Representative in Colorado House District 63. She lost the Republican primary to Dan Woog.[6]
Personal life
In addition to politics, Miller is also an author. As of 2020[update], she has published six works of historical fiction and one mystery novel. In the fall of 2018, Miller's fifth book, Willfully Ignorant, received the second-place Grand Prize in the Xulon Press Christian Author Awards Book Contest.[7]
Miller and her husband, Richard Lynn Miller, have one adopted son and two grandchildren. She resides in Erie, Colorado.[2]
