Wilbur mills married

Wilbur Daigh Mills served in the U. House of Representatives from January to January , becoming one of the top three longest serving Arkansas officials.

He married Miss Clarine Billingsley of Kensett on 27 May , and they have two daughters, Martha Sue and Rebecca Ann. He attended Hendrix College and Harvard Law School and .

Mills is known for his role as architect for Medicare, interstate highways, Social Security, tax reform, and many other policies. He was also the longest continuously serving chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, becoming a member of the committee in , becoming chairman in , stepping down as chairman in , and retiring from the committee and Congress in He had a brother and a sister.

He graduated from Searcy High School in and was valedictorian of his graduating class. He attended Hendrix College in Conway Faulkner County , where he was a champion debater, graduating in with a BA in history as salutatorian of his class, and attended Harvard Law School from to Before he served in Congress, Mills was an attorney and managed both the Bank of Kensett, where his father was chairman of the board, and the A.

Mills general store in Kensett.

Wilbur Mills had no children.

In , White County voters made him the youngest county judge in the state. His work at the local level served as a smaller-scale model of his later national initiatives on the Ways and Means Committee to extend health care coverage to more people, especially the financially and physically disadvantaged. They had two daughters.

At twenty-nine, Mills was the youngest person ever elected to Congress at that time. In , he was the youngest person, at forty-nine, to become chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Mills, a Democrat , was the architect of the final version of the Medicare legislation that passed in and of measures on interstate highways, Social Security disability, Social Security coverage for farmers and young people with elderly or deceased parents, tax reform that substantially increased taxes on higher incomes and decreased taxes on lower incomes, unemployment insurance, and pension reform.

His greatest regret as he retired from Congress was that he had not been able to secure national universal health insurance for all Americans; he missed by only one vote. After having opposition only three times—in , , and —in his eighteen congressional primary and general elections, Mills sparked controversy in October when U.