[5] Virginians elected Miller Attorney General of Virginia in 1969 to succeed Democrat Robert Young Button.

[8] He was sworn in as attorney general in January 1970 and re-elected in 1973 by a landslide, taking 662,568 votes (70.56%) to Republican M. Patton Echols, Jr.'s 276,383 (29.43%).

[11] Howell went on to lose the general election, taking 541,319 votes (43.27%) to Republican Lieutenant Governor John N. Dalton's 699,302 (55.90%).

Warner had actually lost the Republican nomination to Richard D. Obenshain, whom Miller had defeated in the 1969 Attorney General election.

However, Obenshain was killed in a plane crash while returning home from a campaign appearance, and the Republican leadership chose Warner to replace him on the ballot.

"[14] Miller, although a conservative Democrat, served on the transition team for newly elected Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in 2009.