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Garrison (LINDLEY MILLER an American)

LINDLEY MILLER, an American lawyer and public official.

He was born in Camden, N. J., in 1864, and was educated at Phillips Exeter and Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard he studied law in Philadelphia, being admitted to the bar in 1886. After building up a considerable practice he became in 1904 vicechancellor of New Jersey, and in 1913 GARRISON GARVIN President Wilson appointed him Secre- Mr. Lundy, a Quaker, he then started tary of War. In Feb., 1916, he resigned from the cabinet because of a serious difference with the President on the question of the new "Preparedness" program. LINDLEY M. GARRISON He again resumed the practice of law in New York City as a member of the firm of Hornblower, Miller, Garrison, and Potter.