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After nearly 12 years in the General Assembly as a delegate and senator, Sen. Nathan H. Miller (RHarrisonburg) announced Tuesday that he would not seek re-election this fall.
Due to the most recent redistricting action, Sen. Miller was given the southern Fauquier precincts of Catlett, Remington and Morrisville last year, while the remainder of the county has continued to be represented by Sen. William A. Truban (R-Woodstock).
In making his announcement, Sen. Miller said that business pressures and family considerations forced him to make the decision, but he left the door open to future campaigns.
“I’m not dead yet,” said the senator in a telephone interview.
“It’s just that we seem to be moving to a full time legislature, and it’s so demanding that busy people just can’t serve.”
He added that in politics he has learned “to never say never.”
Although he did not elaborate on his plans for future office, he said he would remain active at local, state and national political levels, and he described his withdrawal from public office as a “temporary leave of absence.”
Sen. Miller waged an unsuccessful, and sometimes controversial, campaign as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 1981. During the campaign the Washington Post charged that he was guilty of a conflict of interest by writing legislation favorable to electric cooperatives for which he Was legal counsel.
Although the charges were never fully substantiated, political analysts
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