Andrew P. Miller

Andrew P. Miller
Map showing county choices of the 1978 Senate election in Virginia, between Republican John Warner and Democrat Andrew P. Miller
Attorney General of Virginia
In office 1970–1977
Preceded by	Robert Young Button

Andrew Pickens Miller (born December 21, 1932) is an American attorney, politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the Attorney General of Virginia from 1970 to 1977.

Miller, the son of Democratic 1949 gubernatorial candidate and 1952 U.S. Senate candidate Francis Pickens Miller, attended Princeton University. Upon graduation, he returned to his home state and attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he became Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review. Miller also served as a Lieutenant in the United States Army during the Korean War.

Virginians elected Miller Attorney General of Virginia in 1969 to succeed Democrat Robert Young Button. In the Democratic primary, he received 151,833 votes (41.07%) and advanced to a runoff with Guy O. Farley, Sr., who had received 130,042 votes (35.17%). In the runoff, Miller defeated Farley, Sr. by 256,453 votes (63.14%) to 149,699 (36.86%). In the general election, he faced Republican Richard D. Obenshain and Virginia Conservative nominee Flavius B. Walker, Jr. Miller won the election with 455,264 votes (52.13%) to Obenshain's 402,382 (46.07%) and Walker, Jr.'s 15,692 (1.80%).

He was sworn in as Attorney General in January 1970 and re-elected in 1973 by a landslide, taking 662,568 votes (70.56%) to Republican M. Patton Echols, Jr.'s 276,383 (29.43%). In 1973, the Virginia General Assembly requested that he file suit against the Voting Rights Act. Miller duly did so. In 1976, he was awarded the Wyman Memorial Award, given to an "Outstanding American Attorney General." Miller resigned as Attorney General in January 1977 to run for Governor, as is the convention in Virginia. He faced former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Henry Howell in the Democratic primary and, despite outspending Howell by a margin of 3-to-1, Miller was defeated by 253,373 votes (51.38%) to 239,735 (48.62%). Howell went on to lose the general election, taking 541,319 votes (43.27%) to Republican Lieutenant Governor John N. Dalton's 699,302 (55.90%).