By Ken Bridges, special for the Avalanche-Journal
He fought in the Civil War and served for nearly three decades in Congress and the U. S. Senate from the 1870s through the 1890s.
Though respected for his dedication and work ethic, his political stands damaged his political career.
Roger Quarles Mills was born in Todd County, Kentucky, just on the Tennessee state line, in 1832. Not long after statehood and the end of the Mexican War, the family moved to Texas in 1849. Mills was interested in law, but as there were no law schools in Texas at the time, he apprenticed himself to an attorney and studied it himself. In 1852, barely
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