Joseph Millard

Joseph Hopkins Millard


United States Senator from Nebraska
In office March 28, 1901 – March 3, 1907
Preceded by	John M. Thurston
Succeeded by	Norris Brown
Personal details
Born	(1836-04-20)April 20, 1836 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died	January 13, 1922(1922-01-13) (aged 85) Omaha, Nebraska
Political party	Republican

Joseph Hopkins Millard (April 20, 1836 – January 13, 1922) was a Senator from Nebraska.

Millard was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Iowa with his parents, who settled near Sabula, Iowa. He attended the district school and clerked in a store; Millard moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1856 and engaged in the land business. He moved to Montana in 1864; through the assistance of an Iowa capitalist, he opened a bank in Virginia City, Montana. Millard returned to Omaha in 1866 and became director, president, and cashier of the Omaha National Bank; he was one of the incorporators of the Omaha & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1869. He served as the mayor of Omaha in 1872; for fifteen years he was a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, six years of which he served in the capacity of a Government director.

Millard was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, March 28, 1901, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1901, caused by the failure of the Nebraska Legislature to act, and served from March 28, 1901, to March 4, 1907. During his term he served as chairman of the Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals (Fifty-ninth Congress); he was not a candidate for reelection in 1906. Millard then resumed the banking business in Omaha. He died there on January 13, 1922, and was interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

His brother, Ezra Millard, also served as mayor of Omaha. The former village and present-day neighborhood of Millard, Nebraska was named after the brothers.

There was also a Joseph Millard who wrote science fiction novels, but there is no relation between the two men.

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Political offices
Preceded by Samuel Smith Caldwell	Mayor of Omaha 1872–1873	Succeeded by William M. Brewer
United States Senate
Preceded by John Mellen Thurston	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Nebraska 1901–1907 Served alongside: William V. Allen, Charles H. Dietrich, Elmer J. Burkett	Succeeded by Norris Brown

United States Senators from Nebraska

Class 1	Tipton Paddock Van Wyck Paddock Allen Hayward Allen Dietrich Burkett G. Hitchcock Howell Thompson Hunter Burke Butler Reynolds Hruska Zorinsky Karnes Kerrey Nelson Fischer

Class 2	Thayer P. Hitchcock Saunders Manderson Thurston Millard Brown Norris Wherry Seaton Griswold Bowring Abel Curtis Exon Hagel Johanns Sasse

Mayors of Omaha

Lowe Poppleton Armstrong¹ Belden Briggs Armstrong Kennedy¹ Gilmore Miller Brown Roberts E. Millard Caldwell J. Millard Brewer Gibson² Chase Wilbur Chase Boyd Chase Murphy² Boyd Broatch Cushing Bemis Broatch Bechel² Moores Zimman² Dahlman Smith Dahlman Hopkins² Metcalfe¹ Towl Butler Leeman G. Cunningham Rosenblatt Dworak Sorensen Leahy Zorinsky R. Cunningham¹ Veys Boyle Tomasek² Simon¹ Conley² Calinger¹ Morgan Anzaldo¹ Daub Fahey Suttle Stothert

¹ Interim mayor. ² Acting mayor.

Joseph Millard at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Joseph Millard

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