Max Milo Mills

Max Milo Mills (August 26, 1920 – October 6, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician.

Early life and education Mills was a native of Marshalltown, Iowa, and could trace his ancestry to the homesteaders of Marshall County. His brother Lawrence Ferguson Mills became an art historian and professor at Central College. Max Mills attended the Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University, and Iowa State University before graduating from the University of Chicago. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Drake University Law School. and lost a close general election race to Robert D. Fulton. Mills again contested the Republican nomination for the same post in 1968, which was won by Roger Jepsen. Governor Robert D. Ray appointed Mills to the Iowa Crime Commission. In 1969, Mills relocated to the Kansas City metropolitan area, and later returned to serve on the Iowa Development Commission.

Death Mills died in Marshalltown on October 6, 1998, aged 78.