Leonard J. Miller

Leonard Joseph Miller (February 24, 1907 – September 21, 1992)[1] was a businessperson and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Placentia and St. Mary's in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1949 to 1951.[2]

The son of William Miller and Julia Green, he was born in Placentia and was educated there and at Saint Bonaventure's College.[2] Miller married Mary Reddy; the couple had three children.[3] He served on the first Placentia rural district council from 1946 to 1948 and served two terms as mayor of Placentia. Miller was co-founder and a director for the Placentia Trading Company. He liquidated the company in 1976 and was involved in a housing development in southeast Placentia.

He represented Placentia at the Newfoundland National Convention in 1946. He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1949.[2] Miller resigned from the Progressive Conservative Party in 1951 and ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal in the federal riding of St. John's West in 1958.[1]

References
  1. Hiller, James K; Harrington, Michael F (1995). Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948. p. 535. ISBN 0773565124.
  2. "Miller, Leonard J". Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. p. 551.
  3. Newfoundland Who's Who. 1961. p. 59.
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