Hugh Miller was born in New York City about 1898 and started to work with cameras while he was still a teenager. During World War I he went overseas with an ambulance group that served with the French Army. At the end of the war the Paris Tribune gave him his first photo assignment, covering the allied peace march along the Champs Elysees. After returning to America, Miller took a job working for the news photograph service Underwood and Underwood in Washington DC. He joined the staff of the Washington Post in 1921. In 1929 he moved from the District and became a turf photographer for the New York Morning Telegraph. During Miller’s time with the Telegraph he became one of the foremost turf photographers in the country, even helping uncover a scam during a fall race at Havre de Grace. When Eugene Meyer took over as the new publisher of the Washington Post in 1934, Miller once again returned to Washington. While he occasionally went out to shoot major stories, Miller spent most of his time serving as picture editor. In the late 1940s he oversaw the development and design of the Post’s photographic laboratory in the new building on L Street, NW. When completed it was considered the most up-to-date facility in the country and Miller delighted in giving guided tours. Throughout his career, Miller covered some of the most important events in Washington DC history. He worked every presidential inauguration from Warren Harding in 1921 to Lyndon Johnson in 1965, missing only Franklin Roosevelt’s first in 1933. In 1922 when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed killing ninety-eight people, he was the only photographer to snap pictures from inside the theatre. He accomplished this by pretending to be a welder. Among the other events he covered were the Peoples Drug warehouse fire, a deadly tornado in La Plata, Maryland that killed fifteen children, the explosion at the National Bureau of Standards, The Washington Senators 1924 victory parade, and Babe Ruth’s last game at Griffith Stadium. Miller was a founder and life member of the White House News Photographers Association. Miller retired from the Washington Post in 1967 and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. He died on November 10, 1979 of a circulatory ailment.