Vern Miller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1928
Place of Birth: Wichita, Kansas, United States
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Vern Miller
- Vern Miller (born December 22, 1928) is an American attorney and former police officer. Miller was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1928 and attended primary schools there.
- He attended North High School and Friends University.
- He served as Deputy Sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1949 to 1954, and in 1958 was elected as Sedgwick County Marshal.
- After two terms as marshal, Miller served two terms as Sheriff of Sedgwick County.
- As a Wichita, Kansas police laboratory investigator, he was called out to the crime scene of the Earl and Ruth Bowlin murders in Sedgwick County on April 13, 1963.
- He was elected Sedgwick County Sheriff in 1964 and re-elected twice.
- Having graduated from Oklahoma City University Law School, Miller (who had never tried a case in court before) was elected as Attorney General of Kansas in 1970 under a platform of "aggressive and visible enforcement of the state's drug and liquor laws".
- As attorney general, Miller participated in arrests and drug raids himself; a 1971 article detailed a Wichita drug raid in which Miller hid in the trunk of a car of an undercover agent in order to make arrests.
- When he was re-elected in 1972, he had gained widespread popularity across the state, winning in all of the counties.
- He served in the capacity of attorney general until 1975. In 1974, he was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Kansas, losing by 0.49% to Republican Robert Frederick Bennett.
- Miller then served as Sedgwick County Prosecuting Attorney from 1976 to 1980 and opened up a law practice in his hometown of Wichita.In 2009, the book Vern Miller: Legendary Kansas Lawman by Mike Danford, detailing Miller's life, was published.
- One of his sons, Clifford Miller, is also a police officer (Sgt.) in Sedgwick County.
- Miller is a member of the Presbyterian Church, Kansas Bar Association, American Judicature Society and Wichita Bar Association.
- He is a former president of the Kansas Peace Officers Association.
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