Raymond C. Miller hailed from Indiana, joining the Army during World War I as an Infantry Lieutenant. He served as a General’s aide and was later promoted to Captain. After his service, he moved to Washington, D.C. to attend classes at Georgetown, obtaining his MSFS degree in 1922.
Post-MSFS, Miller became an assistant professor at Georgetown and began a career at the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, where he served as assistant chief of the European Division in 1924. He became the trade commissioner in Paris and afterwards was appointed commercial attaché in Brussels. After leaving the Department of Commerce in 1933, he served as the director of import-export relations in the office of the Special Advisor of the President on Foreign Trade. He was tasked with sorting foreign applications for importation of alcohol, a demanding role in post-prohibition America.
By 1944, after what already seems to have been an illustrious career, he joined the State Department’s Foreign Service, becoming the Inspector General in 1953. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1960.
He married his wife Louise in 1923 and they had two sons who later worked for the United States Information Agency and the other working for the Agency for International Development.