Talk:John E. Miles

Cherokee Ancestry
@User:Reywas92 and @User:Yohan Anthony Sunanda, page 9 of the September 2014 edition of the New Mexico Military Institute Alumni Relations magazine provides the following information on a distinguished alumnus of NMMI:

"MG Franklin E. Miles, USA (Ret) 1944 JC was born in 1923 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. His father was Governor John E. Miles of Cherokee descent. His mother, Susie C. Wade, was a member of the Choctaw Nation. In 1939, he attended the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM and received an Associate Degree upon graduation. Returning from World War II, Miles attended The University of New Mexico (UNM) and received his degree in Business Administration in 1950."



This seems to me to be a reliable source, and to be more trustworthy regarding John E. Miles's ancestry than one can expect from an article about a 2018 gubernatorial candidate whom the author wants to emphasize would "make history" (and which doesn't mention Miles). Just this morning, the (usually accurate) Politics1.com stated that Winsome Sears had been the first African-American Republican to be elected to the Virginia General Assembly when, in fact, she was the first *female* African-American Republican to be so elected (over a dozen black Republicans were elected to the VA General Assembly during Reconstruction); similarly, Idaho gubernatorial candidate Paulette Jordan, if elected, would become the first *female Native-American* governor and the first *publicly Native-American* governor, but John Miles apparently would have beaten her out by 80 years to the milestone of first Native-American governor. If I had to choose between a short biography of a distinguished alumnus of NMMI in the school's alumni magazine and a news article that doesn't even mention Miles, I would rely on the source with the specific mention of Miles's ancestry. AuH2ORepublican (talk) 21:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Parents
Does anyone know who were his parents? From his grandson Leonard Paul Miles Was his father possibly Monroe Miles? 2601:8C3:8300:5EB0:EDA5:7996:8A63:C628 (talk) 19:46, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

John E. Miles wife
Her maiden name was Carmen Susan Wade 2601:8C3:8300:5EB0:EDA5:7996:8A63:C628 (talk) 19:50, 6 November 2021 (UTC)