Headshot of Wilbur D. Mills

Wilbur D. Mills


(May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992)

Wilbur D. Mills was a U.S. representative [D-Arkansas] from January 1939 to January 1977, and chair of the House Ways and Means Committee from January 1958 to January 1975.

Wilbur Mills and LBJ talking at a table

A “Three-Prong Approach” to Medicare

  June 11, 1964
President Johnson and Wilbur Mills talking at a desk

“$400 Million’s Not Going to Separate Us”

  March 23, 1965