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ROGER QUARLES MILLS (1832– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROGER See also:QUARLES See also:MILLS (1832– )  , See also:American legislator, was See also:born in Todd See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 3oth of See also:March 1832 . He went to See also:Texas in 1839, studied See also:law, and was admitted to the See also:bar by a See also:special See also:act of the legislature before he was twenty-one . He entered the Confederate See also:army in 1861, took See also:part as a private in the See also:battle of See also:Wilson's See also:Creek, and as See also:colonel commanded the Tenth Texas See also:Infantry at See also:Arkansas See also:Post, Chickamauga (where he commanded a See also:brigade during part of the battle), Missionary See also:Ridge and See also:Atlanta . He served in the See also:national See also:House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1873 to 1892 and in the See also:Senate from 1892 to 1899 . He made the See also:tariff his special study, and was See also:long recognized as the leading authority in See also:Congress . As chairman of the Ways and Means See also:Committee of the House of Representatives in 1887–1889 during See also:President See also:Cleveland's first See also:administration, he led the fight for reform . From his committee he reported in See also:April 1888 the " See also:Mills See also:Bill," which provided for a reduction of the duties on See also:sugar, earthen-See also:ware, glassware, See also:plate See also:glass, woollen goods and other articles, the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties in many cases, and the placing of See also:lumber (of certain kinds), See also:hemp, See also:wool, See also:flax, See also:borax, See also:tin plates, See also:salt and other articles on the See also:free See also:list . This bill was passed by the Democratic House on the 21st of See also:July, and was then so amended by a Republican Senate as to be unacceptable to the house . The tariff thus became the See also:chief issue in the presidential See also:campaign of 1888 . In 1891 Mills was a See also:candidate in the Democratic See also:caucus for See also:Speaker of the house, but was defeated by See also:Charles F . Crisp (1845–1896) of See also:Georgia . During the free See also:silver controversy he adhered to the Cleveland See also:section of the Democratic party, and failed to be re-elected when his See also:term in the Senate expired in 1899 .

He then retired to See also:

Corsicana, Texas, where he engaged in business and the practice of law .

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