Carroll Miller

Carroll Miller became Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission in 1936.

Carroll Miller looks at model of a boiler during the fiftieth anniversary of the Interstate Commerce Commission on 4 July 1937. The boiler had glass windows and gauges so that the operator had control over the steam and the flow of water at all times. It was the first boiler ever made by the Commission in 1911.

Life and career

Carroll Miller was born in Richmond, Virginia and lived in Pennsylvania. He was appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1933. This appointment might have been based on a recommendation by the president's political ally Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, the brother-in-law of Carroll Miller, as he had practically no knowledge of railroads and railroad employees. He was serious and hard-working and became Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission on 29 December 1936.