Lleweiillyn Seth Milliken (1831-1897) a U.S. Representative, was born in Montville on December 12, 1831. He attended the common schools and Waterville College [now Colby College]; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1856.
A member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1857 and 1858, he later moved to Belfast. He was clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1871, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1871, but did not practice.
Milliken was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 and 1884 and was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1883, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 18, 1897. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-first and Fifty-fourth Congresses). He is interred in Grove Cemetery, Belfast.
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Lleweiillyn Seth Milliken Congressional Biography: https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=m000769 (accessed December 31, 2020)