Retired Senator Miller dies, remembered as ‘lion’ of Maryland’s Senate January 17, 2021By Mark Zimmermann Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, Maryland General Assembly, News, Obituaries Retired Maryland State Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. – who had been the country’s longest-serving state senate president – died Jan. 15 at the age of 78 at his home in Chesapeake Beach from complications from prostate cancer.