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Eugene Donald Millikin (February 12, 1891July 26, 1958) was a
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from
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who served as Senate Republican Conference Chairperson from 1947 to 1956.


Biography

Born in
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, Millikin graduated from the
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of the
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in 1913. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
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,
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. He entered politics and served as executive secretary to the Governor from 1915 to 1917. During
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he enlisted as a private in the Colorado
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in 1917, saw action in
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and was mustered out as a lieutenant colonel. Millikin resumed the practice of law in
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, and became president of Kinney-Coastal Oil. Millikin was appointed by Governor
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on December 20, 1941, and subsequently elected on November 3, 1942, as a Republican to the
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to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, caused by the death of Alva B. Adams. He was reelected in 1944 and 1950, and served in all from December 20, 1941, to January 3, 1957. (He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956). He served as chairman of the
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, the
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, the U.S. Senate Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Millikin identified with the
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wing of the Senate GOP. He also voted for an FEPC bill in 1950 in addition to bolstering President
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's army desegregation. In a meeting of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy on July 20, 1949, he opposed - supported by Senator Arthur Vandenberg - a cooperation between the US and the UK in the production of atomic weapons because he believed that the American public opinion assumed that the US monopoly possession of atomic weapons gave the US a real advantage in an uncertain world.Top Secret Record of the meeting in: FRUS 1949, vol. 1, p. 493 Millikin died in Denver in 1958 and was interred in the Fairmount Mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Millikin, Eugene Donald 1891 births 1958 deaths American military personnel of World War I Colorado lawyers Republican Party United States senators from Colorado Utah lawyers Colorado Republicans People from Hamilton, Ohio United States Army officers University of Colorado Law School alumni 20th-century American lawyers Burials at Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado) Phi Delta Theta members 20th-century United States senators