Robert Burnett Miller (September 2, 1923 – October 14, 2018) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Sacramento, California, in 1982.
Biography
editMiller was born on September 2, 1923, in Sacramento, California, where his father was in the lumber business. He joined the ROTC at Santa Clara College in 1941.[1] He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was with the U.S. 11th Armored Division when it liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria on May 6, 1945. The final episode of Ken Burns' documentary The War features Miller's harrowing eyewitness account of encountering the Holocaust at Mauthausen.[1]
Miller served on the Sacramento City Council from 1971 to 1977. He then served as mayor of Sacramento, California in 1982. Miller died at his home on October 14, 2018, at the age of 95.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Burnett Miller, Sacramento, CA". PBS. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
Burnett Miller was born on September 2, 1923 in Sacramento. His father ran a successful lumber business. Miller was a sophomore in ROTC at Santa Clara College when the war began. ...
- ^ ‘Renaissance man’ Burnett Miller, former Sacramento mayor and community icon, dies at 95