Loren Miller was a civic reformer and libertarian activist in the first half of the 20th century.
Perhaps Miller's most lasting contribution was his success in convincing business magnates to support libertarian causes and organizations.
Other examples included Jasper Crane of DuPont; B. E. Hutchinson of Chrysler; Henry Weaver of General Electric; Pierre Goodrich, the Indianapolis businessman and creator in 1960 of Liberty Fund; Richard Earhart, founder of the Earhart Foundation; and Harold Luhnow of the Volker Fund.
After the establishment of the Volker Fund, Miller went on to become director of the Volker-funded Kansas City Civic Research Institute from 1942 to 1944.
He stayed in Kansas City until 1944, and then he left to go back to the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research as its director.