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MILLS, Wilbur Daigh, a Representative from Arkansas; born in Kensett, White County, Ark., May 24,
1909; attended the public schools; Hendrix College, Conway, Ark., and the law department of
Harvard University; was admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practice in Searcy, Ark.; served
as county and probate judge of White County, Ark., 1934-1938; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-sixth and to the eighteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1977);
chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Eighty-fifth through Ninety-third Congresses), Joint
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-sixth through Ninety-third Congresses); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; tax consultant for the Washington office
of Shea, Gould, Climenko & Casey, a New York law firm; was a resident of Kensett, Ark., until
his death in Searcy, Ark., on May 2, 1992.
BibliographyZelizer, Julian E. Taxing America: Wilbur D.
Mills, Congress, and the State, 1745-1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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