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Zell Miller

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Zell Miller

Zell Miller (born February 24, 1932 – March 23, 2018) was a former United States Senator from Georgia. Miller was Lieutenant Governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as United States Senator from 2000 to 2005.[1]

He wrote a book A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat. The book spent nine weeks in the New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction.[2]

Miller died on March 23, 2018, at his home in Young Harris, Georgia from Parkinson's disease, aged 86.[3][4]

By Zell Miller:

  • 1975: Mountains Within Me
  • 1983: Great Georgians
  • 1985: They Heard Georgia Singing
  • 1997: Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines
  • 1999: The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-By-Day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, With Complete Muster Rolls, also by Robert E. Allen
  • 2003: A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat
  • 2003: foreword to What'll Ya Have: A History of the Varsity by Dick Parker
  • 2005: A Deficit Of Decency
  • 2005: foreword to "Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America" by Martha Zoller
  • 2007: "The Miracle of Brasstown Valley"
  • 2009: "Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways"

About Zell Miller:

  • 1998: "Listen to this Voice" Selected Speeches of Governor Zell Miller
  • 1999: Zell, The Governor Who Gave Georgia HOPE by Richard Hyatt
  • 1999: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Miller Record

References

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  1. "Georgia's Miller won't seek re-election". CNN. January 8, 2003.
  2. Garner, Dwight (May 15, 2005). "REBEL ZELL". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
  3. FOX (27 March 2018). "Former Georgia Governor Zell Miller dies at 86".
  4. Stout, David (March 23, 2018). "Zell Miller, Feisty Democrat Who Sided With G.O.P., Is Dead at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  • Miller, Zell (1997). Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines. Atlanta, Georgia: Longstreet Press. ISBN 1-56352-387-6.