Wilbur Daigh Mills

Wilbur Mills
Chairperson of the House Ways and Means Committee
In office January 7, 1958 – December 10, 1974
Preceded by	Jere Cooper
Succeeded by	Al Ullman
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 2nd district
In office January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1977
Preceded by	John Miller
Succeeded by	Jim Tucker
Personal details
Born	Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909-05-24)May 24, 1909 Kensett, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	May 2, 1992(1992-05-02) (aged 82) Searcy, Arkansas, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Hendrix College Harvard University

Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Arkansas. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1939 to January 1977, becoming one of the top three longest serving Arkansas officials, and was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He was briefly a candidate for President of the United States in 1972. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Arkansas.

Mills was born in Kensett in White County to Abbie Lois Daigh Mills and Ardra Pickens Mills. Kensett was the first public school in Arkansas to integrate, under Mills' father, who was first superintendent and then chairman of the school board and the banker for the school district. Mills attended public schools in Kensett but graduated as valedictorian from Searcy High School in the county seat of White County. He thereafter graduated from Hendrix College in Conway as salutatorian, having resided in Martin Hall. He studied constitutional law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts under Felix Frankfurter, who was subsequently nominated and confirmed (1939) as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Mills returned to Arkansas to run his father's bank in 1933 in the Great Depression and was admitted to the Arkansas Bar Association bar in 1933.

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