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  Miller III, James C. "Jim"
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NameJames C. "Jim" Miller III
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Born June 25, 1942 (81 years)
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InfoJames C. Miller III is a U.S. politician and economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1988. He also ran for United States Senate in Virginia, losing the Republican nomination in the primary to Oliver North in 1994.

Miller earned a B.B.A. in economics from the University of Georgia in 1964 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1969.

Between 1977 and 1981, Miller was a Resident Scholar at the Center for the Study of Government Regulation at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1978 to 1981, he served as co-director of the center.

Miller was the first Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (April - October 1981) and the Executive Director of Vice President George Bush's Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. From 1981 to 1985, he chaired the Federal Trade Commission. From October 1985 to October 1988, Miller was director of the United States Office of Management and Budget.

He has been John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow at the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation and at the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

He has been counselor to and a board member of Citizens for a Sound Economy (1988-2002), a Member of the Boards of the Tax Foundation and the Progress and Freedom Foundation, and a member of the Board of Visitors of George Mason University. In addition, Miller has been a Director of LECG Economics-Finance, a Member of the Board of Atlantic Coast Airlines ("United Express" and “Delta Connection”), a Member of the Board of Recipco Corporation, a Member of the Board of Washington Mutual Investors Fund, a Member of the Board of the Tax-Exempt Fund of Maryland, a Member of the Board of the Tax-Exempt Fund of Virginia, a Member of the Board of the J.P. Morgan Value Opportunities Fund, a consultant to Freddie Mac, and Chairman of the Board of Economic Impact Analysts, Inc. (family-held consulting firm).

Miller is currently chairman of the Capital Analysis Group (CapAnalysis), a division of the international law firm of Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White and the U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors elected Miller to be its chairman in 2005.

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