Roger Q. Mills
Confederate Army officer and politician
Died when: 79 years 156 days (953 months)Star Sign: Aries
Roger Quarles Mills (March 30, 1832 – September 2, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician.During the American Civil War, he served as an officer in the Confederate States Army.
Later, he served in the US Congress, first as a representative and later as a senator.As the top Democrat on the powerful United States House Committee on Ways and Means during the first Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison administrations, Mills was the leading advocate in Congress for trade liberalization.
He was ultimately unsuccessful in passing any major tariff reduction and, after Republicans won control of the House on a pro-tariff platform, was unsuccessful in blocking the McKinley Tariff of 1890.
He ran for Speaker after Democrats regained the House in 1891 but lost to Charles F.Crisp.
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