Edward G. Miller, Jr.

Edward G. Miller, Jr. (1911–1968) was a United States lawyer who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1949 to 1952.

Edward G. Miller, Jr. was born on September 27, 1911 in San Juan, Puerto Rico where his father worked as an engineer at a sugar refinery. In 1913, the family relocated to Cuba. For high school, Miller was sent to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire from 1923 to 1929. He then attended Yale University, graduating in 1933. While at Yale, he formed what would become lifelong friendships with Robert F. Wagner, Jr. and Charles H. Tenney. Miller then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1936.

After law school, Miller became an associate attorney at the New York City law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1939, he married Carol H. Pritchett; the couple would later have two daughters. With the outbreak of World War II, in 1941, Miller joined the United States Department of State and became Special Assistant to United States Ambassador to Brazil Jefferson Caffery in Rio de Janeiro. Already fluent in Spanish from his childhood in Puerto Rico and Cuba, Miller now also learned to speak Portuguese. In 1944, he served as a United States delegate to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. He then spent 1945-47 as Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson. In 1947, Miller returned to Sullivan & Cromwell as a partner.