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Charles Thomas McMillen (born May 26, 1952) is a retired professional basketball player, Rhodes Scholar, and Democratic U.S. Congressman, who represented the 4th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1987 to January 3, 1993.

On March 22, 2011, he was appointed as Chairman of the inaugural Board of Directors of the President's Foundation on Sports, Physical Fitness, and Nutrition. He is also the author of Out of Bounds,^[2] a critical look at the unhealthy influence of sports on ethics, and he served on the Knight Foundation's Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics investigating abuses within college sports.^[3]

Basketball career

Prior to entering politics, McMillen was a star basketball player on all levels. In 1970, he was the number one high school basketball player in the U.S. coming out of Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and was the biggest recruiting catch early in Coach Lefty Driesell's career at the University of Maryland, beating out rival Coach Dean Smith of the University of North Carolina for McMillen's services. McMillen was also a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team that lost a controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union.

McMillen received his B.S. from University of Maryland in chemistry, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. After graduating from Maryland in 1974, McMillen was drafted with the ninth pick in the first round of the 1974 NBA draft by the Buffalo Braves and the first round of the 1974 ABA Draft by the Virginia Squires.^[3] McMillen signed with the Braves but postponed his entry into the NBA in order to attend the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. During his time at Oxford, McMillen commuted to Bologna, to play for Italian club Virtus Bologna.^[4] During his eleven-year National Basketball Association career, he played for the Braves, New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks, and Washington Bullets, before he retired in 1986 to pursue his political career.

Congress

He was elected to the U.S. Congress as a Democrat to represent Maryland's 4th district, and served 1987–1993 as that district's representative.^[5]

In 1992, the 4th was redrawn as a black-majority district due to a mandate from the Justice Department. His home in Crofton was drawn into the Eastern Shore-based 1st District, represented by one-term Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest. Although McMillen did very well in the more urbanized areas of the district near Baltimore and Washington, D.C., it was not enough to overcome Gilchrest's margin on the Eastern Shore, and McMillen lost his reelection bid.

McMillen is thought to be the tallest-ever member of Congress. At 6 feet 11 inches, he is two feet taller than Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, who is believed to be the shortest representative ever.^[6]

After Congress

McMillen was appointed to the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents in 2007, where he served until June 30, 2015. He was replaced by Robert R. Neall whom McMillen had defeated for Congress in 1986.^[7]

In September 2015, McMillen was selected to lead the Division 1-A Athletic Directors’ Association as it moved from Dallas to Washington, D.C.^[8] He remains President and Chief Executive Officer of the renamed Lead1 Association, now advocating for athletic directors at Football Bowl Subdivision universities.^[9]^[10]

Family

Election history

References

1. ^{{Cite web| title=Tom McMillen College Stats |website=College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com | url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/tom-mcmillen-1.html | accessdate=March 24, 2019 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Out-Bounds-American-Establishment-Hypocrisy/dp/0671707760 |title=Out of Bounds: How the American Sport Establishment Is Being Driven by Greed Hypocrisy-And What Need to Be Done About It |first1=Tom |last1=McMillen |first2=Paul |last2=Coggins |date=May 1, 1992 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |website=Amazon}}
3. ^DatabaseBasketball page on Tom McMillen {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719121038/http://databasebasketball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=McMilTo01 |date=July 19, 2014 }}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1125368/index.htm |title=Aspiring To Higher Things: All-America, Rhodes Scholar, NBA player, Tom McMillen is emulating Bill Bradley. Next, elective office |accessdate=June 18, 2010 |date=April 5, 1982 |work=Sports Illustrated}}
5. ^{{cite news|title=Members of Congress/Tom McMillen|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000573|work=The Washington Post|year=2009|accessdate=August 24, 2009}}
6. ^Dowd, Maureen (April 20, 1987). [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/20/us/washington-talk-congress-a-matter-of-measurement.html "A Matter of Measurement"], The New York Times; retrieved August 24, 2009.
7. ^{{cite news|last1=Barker|first1=Jeff|title=Former Rep. Tom McMillen replaced as Maryland regent|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-mcmillen-regents-20150316-story.html|accessdate=December 22, 2017|work=The Baltimore Sun|date=March 16, 2015}}
8. ^¹{{cite news|title=Ex-Terp Tom McMillen tapped to lead Division 1A Athletic Directors' Association|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/tracking-the-terps/bal-exterp-c-thomas-mcmillen-tapped-to-lead-division-1a-athletic-directors-association-20150921-story.html|accessdate=December 26, 2017|work=The Baltimore Sun|date=September 21, 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Tom McMillen - Lead1 Association|url=http://lead1association.com/staff.aspx?staff=18|website=Lead1 Association|accessdate=December 26, 2017}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Hobson|first1=Will|title=Why the new GOP tax law is setting off a dash for cash at many major college sports programs|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/12/22/why-the-new-gop-tax-law-is-setting-off-a-dash-for-cash-at-many-major-college-sports-programs/|accessdate=December 26, 2017|work=The Washington Post|date=December 22, 2017}}
11. ^{{cite web |first=Leonard |last=Shapiro |url=http://middleburglife.com/201667tom-mcmillen-still-has-that-feathery-touch/ |title=Tom McMillen Still Has That Feathery Touch |website=Middleburg Life |date=June 7, 2016 |publisher=Greenhill Media, LLC}}
12. ^{{cite web |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1986 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1986election.pdf#page=18 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |accessdate=April 8, 2013 |author=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |date=May 29, 1987}}
13. ^{{cite web |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 8, 1988 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1988election.pdf#page=20 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |accessdate=April 8, 2013 |author=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |date=April 20, 1989}}
14. ^{{cite web|title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1990|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1990election.pdf#page=17|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|accessdate=April 8, 2013|author=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives|date=April 29, 1991}}
15. ^{{cite web |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 3, 1992 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1992election.pdf#page=32 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |accessdate=April 8, 2013 |author=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |date=May 31, 1993}}

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