Joseph Hopkins Millard (April 20, 1836January 13, 1922) was a British North American-born American businessman and politician from

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. He served in the

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and as mayor of

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, and was an

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activist.

Life

Millard was born in

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. He moved to

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with his parents, who settled near

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. He attended the district school and clerked in a store; Millard moved to

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, in 1856 and engaged in the land business. He moved to

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in 1864; through the assistance of an Iowa capitalist, he opened a bank in

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. Millard returned to Omaha in 1866 and became director, president, and cashier of the

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; he was one of the incorporators of the Omaha & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1869. He served as the

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in 1872; for fifteen years he was a director of the

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Company, six years of which he served in the capacity of a Government director. Millard was elected as a Republican to the

, March 28, 1901, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1901, caused by the failure of the

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to act, and served from March 28, 1901, to March 3, 1907. During his term he served as chairman of the Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals (Fifty-ninth Congress); he was not a candidate for reelection in 1906. Millard then resumed the banking business in Omaha. He died there on January 13, 1922, and was interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

Views

Millard headed an organization called ''Nebraska

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''. His organization opposed allowing women to vote as a part of a broader desire to restrict voting to white men of high social class.

Relatives

His brother,

Ezra Millard Ezra Millard (February 2, 1833 – August 20, 1886) was a U.S. politician who was mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, from 1869 to 1871. He was also brother to Joseph Hopkins Millard, another mayor of Omaha, and namesake of Millard, Nebraska. Millard d ...

, also served as mayor of Omaha. The former village and present-day neighborhood of

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was named after the brothers.

References

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