December 23, 2020
Citing the increasing toll that metastatic prostate cancer has had on his body, Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from the legislature, effective immediately.
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In a letter to his successor, Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), Miller said my heart and my mind remain strong, but my body has grown too weak to meet the demands of another legislative session.
Miller recently told a reporter that he has gone from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair.
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Speaking to reporters on a midday Zoom call, Miller said, I thought I could continue on. … But the cancer is in all my bones.