Eugene Donald Millikin was a United States Senator from Colorado

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 who served as Senate Republican Conference Chairperson from 1947 to 1956.

Born in Hamilton, Ohio

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, Millikin graduated from the law school

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 of the University of Colorado at Boulder

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 in 1913. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

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. He entered politics and served as executive secretary to the Governor from 1915 to 1917. During World War I

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 he enlisted as a private in the Colorado National Guard in 1917, saw action in France

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 and was mustered out as a lieutenant colonel

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. Millikin resumed the practice of law in Denver, Colorado

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, and became president of Kinney-Coastal Oil.

Millikin was appointed on December 20, 1941, and subsequently elected on November 3, 1942, as a Republican

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 to the United States Senate

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 to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, caused by the death of Alva B. Adams

Alva B. Adams

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. 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

United States Senate Committee on Finance

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, the Senate Republican Conference, the U.S. Senate Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Millikin died in Denver in 1958 and was interred in the Fairmount Mausoleum

Fairmount Mausoleum (Denver, Colorado)

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 at Fairmount Cemetery

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Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado was founded in 1890 and is Denver's second oldest operating cemetery after Riverside Cemetery. It was designed by German landscape architect Reinhard Schuetze...

, Denver.

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