Eugene Millikin

Eugene Millikin
Eugene Millikin
Republican Senate Conference Chairman
	In office; January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1957
Leader	Wallace H. White, Jr.; Kenneth S. Wherry; Styles Bridges; Robert A. Taft; William F. Knowland
Vice Chair	Milton Young
Preceded by	Arthur H. Vandenberg
Succeeded by	Leverett Saltonstall
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance
	In office; January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955
Preceded by	Walter F. George
Succeeded by	Harry F. Byrd
	In office; January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949
Preceded by	Walter F. George
Succeeded by	Walter F. George
United States Senator; from Colorado
	In office; December 20, 1941 – January 3, 1957
Preceded by	Alva B. Adams
Succeeded by	John A. Carroll
Personal details
Born	Eugene Donald Millikin; February 12, 1891; Hamilton, Ohio
Died	July 26, 1958 (aged 67); Denver, Colorado
Political party	Republican

Eugene Donald Millikin (February 12, 1891 – July 26, 1958) was a United States senator from Colorado who served as Senate Republican Conference Chairperson from 1947 to 1956.

Biography

Born in Hamilton, Ohio, Millikin graduated from the law school of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1913. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He entered politics and served as executive secretary to the Governor from 1915 to 1917. During World War I he enlisted as a private in the Colorado National Guard in 1917, saw action in France and was mustered out as a lieutenant colonel. Millikin resumed the practice of law in Denver, Colorado, and became president of Kinney-Coastal Oil.

Millikin was appointed by Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr on December 20, 1941, and subsequently elected on November 3, 1942, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, caused by the death of Alva B. Adams. He was reelected in 1944 and 1950, and served in all from December 20, 1941, to January 3, 1957. (He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956).

He served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Republican Conference, the U.S. Senate Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.

Millikin identified with the conservative wing of the Senate GOP.^[1] He also voted for an FEPC bill in 1950 in addition to bolstering President Harry Truman's army desegregation.^[2]^[3]

In a meeting of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy on July 20, 1949, he opposed - supported by Senator Arthur Vandenberg - a cooperation between the US and the UK in the production of atomic weapons because he believed that the American public opinion assumed that the US monopoly possession of atomic weapons gave the US a real advantage in an uncertain world.^[4]

Millikin died in Denver in 1958 and was interred in the Fairmount Mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

References

^ July 27, 1958. EUGENE MILLIKIN, EX-SENATOR, DIES; Colorado Republican From Conservative Wing Served From 1941 to 1956. The New York Times. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
^ S 1728. PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. MOTION FOR CLOTURE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
^ HR 6826. EXTENSION OF SELECTIVE SERVICE MANPOWER REGISTRA- TION ACT. AMEND. TO ELIMINATE A COMMITTEE AMEND. WHICH WOULD GIVE OPTION TO ENLISTEE TO SERVE IN A UNIT, THE PER- SONNEL OF WHICH ARE OF HIS OWN RACE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
^ Top Secret Record of the meeting in: FRUS 1949, vol. 1, p. 493

United States Congress. "Eugene Millikin (id: M000771)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

External links

Eugene Millikin at Find a Grave

U.S. Senate
Preceded by Alva B. Adams	U.S. senator (Class 3) from Colorado 1941–1957 Served alongside: Edwin C. Johnson, Gordon L. Allott	Succeeded by John A. Carroll
Political offices
Preceded by Walter F. George	Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee 1947–1949	Succeeded by Walter F. George
Preceded by Walter F. George	Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee 1953–1955	Succeeded by Harry F. Byrd
Party political offices
Preceded by Archibald A. Lee	Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Colorado (Class 3) 1942, 1944, 1950	Succeeded by Daniel I. J. Thornton
Preceded by Arthur H. Vandenberg	Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference 1947–1956	Succeeded by Leverett Saltonstall

[1] July 27, 1958. EUGENE MILLIKIN, EX-SENATOR, DIES; Colorado Republican From Conservative Wing Served From 1941 to 1956. The New York Times. Retrieved September 12, 2021.

[2] S 1728. PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. MOTION FOR CLOTURE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 12, 2021.

[3] HR 6826. EXTENSION OF SELECTIVE SERVICE MANPOWER REGISTRA- TION ACT. AMEND. TO ELIMINATE A COMMITTEE AMEND. WHICH WOULD GIVE OPTION TO ENLISTEE TO SERVE IN A UNIT, THE PER- SONNEL OF WHICH ARE OF HIS OWN RACE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 12, 2021.

[4] Top Secret Record of the meeting in: FRUS 1949, vol. 1, p. 493

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