Wheeler Milmoe

Wheeler Milmoe (April 18, 1898 – April 8, 1972) was an American newspaper editor and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on April 18, 1898, in Canastota, Madison County, New York, the son Patrick F. Milmoe (died 1918) and Margaret M. Milmoe. He attended the public schools, and Canastota High School. He graduated A.B. from Cornell University in 1917.[1] After the death of his father he took over he publication of The Canastota Bee–Journal. On July 6, 1927, he married Frances Veronica Tobin,[2] and they had two children.

Milmoe was a member of the New York State Assembly (Madison Co.) in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939–40, 1941–42, 1943–44, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1949–50 and 1951–52.

He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1953 to 1958, sitting in the 169th, 170th and 171st New York State Legislatures. He was an alternate delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention.

He died on April 8, 1972, in Oneida City Hospital in Oneida, New York;[3] and was buried at St. Agatha's Cemetery in Canastota.

Sources

  1. New York Red Book (1950; pg. 177)
  2. Cornell Alumni News (Vol. XXIX, No. 39, July 1927; pg. 491)
  3. Mr. Milmoe, Ex-legislator, Dies in the Madison County Times, of Chittenango, on April 13, 1972

External links

Wheeler Milmoe at Find a Grave

New York Assembly
Preceded by
Arthur A. Hartshorn
New York State Assembly
Madison County

1934–1952
Succeeded by
Harold I. Tyler
New York State Senate
Preceded by
Walter W. Stokes
New York State Senate
44th District

1953–1954
Succeeded by
Searles G. Shultz
Preceded by
Dutton S. Peterson
New York State Senate
46th District

1955–1958
Succeeded by
Janet Hill Gordon
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