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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 (1891-02-12)February 12, 1891 Hamilton, Ohio
Died	July 26, 1958(1958-07-26) (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. He also voted for an FEPC bill in 1950 in addition to bolstering President Harry Truman's army desegregation.

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.

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 byAlva B. Adams	U.S. senator (Class 3) from Colorado 1941–1957 Served alongside: Edwin C. Johnson, Gordon L. Allott	Succeeded byJohn A. Carroll
Political offices
Preceded byWalter F. George	Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee 1947–1949	Succeeded byWalter F. George
Preceded byWalter F. George	Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee 1953–1955	Succeeded byHarry F. Byrd
Party political offices
Preceded byArchibald A. Lee	Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Colorado (Class 3) 1942, 1944, 1950	Succeeded byDaniel I. J. Thornton
Preceded byArthur H. Vandenberg	Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference 1947–1956	Succeeded byLeverett Saltonstall

v t e United States senators from Colorado
Class 2	Teller Chilcott Tabor Bowen Wolcott Patterson Guggenheim Shafroth Phipps Costigan Johnson Allott Haskell Armstrong Brown Allard Udall Gardner Hickenlooper
Class 3	Chaffee Hill Teller Hughes Thomas Nicholson Adams Means Waterman Walker Schuyler Adams Millikin Carroll Dominick Hart Wirth Campbell Salazar Bennet

v t e Republican Conference chairs of the United States Senate
J. Hale Anthony Sherman Edmunds Sherman Allison E. Hale Cullom Gallinger Lodge Chas. Curtis Watson McNary Vandenberg Millikin Saltonstall Smith Cotton C. T. Curtis Packwood McClure Chafee Cochran Mack Santorum Kyl Alexander Thune Barrasso Cotton

v t e Chairs of the United States Senate Committee on Finance
Campbell Eppes Sanford Holmes Lowrie Smith Forsyth Webster Wright Clay Evans Woodbury Calhoun Lewis Atherton Dickinson Hunter Pearce Fessenden Sherman Fessenden Sherman Morrill Bayard Morrill Voorhees Morrill Aldrich Penrose Simmons Penrose McCumber Smoot Harrison George Millikin George Millikin Byrd Long Dole Packwood Bentsen Moynihan Packwood Roth Baucus Grassley Baucus Grassley Baucus Wyden Hatch Grassley Wyden Crapo

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