Joe Miller (Alaska politician)

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Joseph Wayne Miller (born May 10, 1967) is an American attorney and politician. He is best known as the runner-up in both the 2010 United States Senate election in Alaska and the 2016 United States Senate election in Alaska. A member of the Republican Party, he was defeated by fellow Republican Lisa Murkowski in both races, including in 2010, when Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate after Miller won the Republican primary. A Kansas native, Miller moved to Alaska with his family in the mid-1990s. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1995. Miller is a combat veteran of the 1991 Gulf War. Before running for U.S. Senate, Miller worked as an attorney in private general practice, a local government attorney, and a U.S. magistrate judge. Miller rose to national prominence as the Republican Party nominee and Tea Party movement favorite in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Alaska. After defeating incumbent U.S....

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