William H. Milliken

William H. Milliken, Jr., August 19, 1897, Philadelphia – July 4, 1969 (age 71), was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Milliken graduated from Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. After graduating he worked as a construction foreman and a sales executive for the Whitehall Cement Manufacturing Co. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, and clerk of courts of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

He was appointed burgess of Sharon Hill to fill an unexpired term on September 14, 1948, and was elected in 1949, reelected in 1953 and 1957 and served until he was elected to Congress.

Milliken was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth, Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1964.

He is buried at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

When Benjamin James announced his retirement from Congress in February 1958, there was intense speculation as to whom the Delaware County Board of Republican Supervisors (War Board) would endorse for his successor. In apparent reaction to the failing health and looming departure of the 72-year-old incumbent, some GOP leaders felt the need to choose a younger candidate. A spokesman for the county political organization denied rampant speculation that former Register of Wills Thomas Curran was the leading contender. Those being considered for the job were Milliken, Curran, state representatives Edward E. Lippincott 2nd and Clarence Bell, Republican leader of Swarthmore Edmund Jones, Assistant District Attorney Jacques Fox of Upper Providence and William Miller of Radnor. Others interested were state representative Clyde R. Dengler; Upper Darby attorney Dominic Jerome; and Chester Times Publisher Robert Howard.

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