noticed a change in him. His old colleague and co-worker in tariff reform, former Representative William L. Wilson of West Virginia, wrote in his diary in 1896, "Poor Mills, how he seems to have gone to pieces since the time when he was leading the tariff reform forces in the House, and a welcome and strong speaker on that great issue all over the country. Today he made one of the most extreme and wild jingo speeches in the Senate on the Cuban question that has marked the whole debate. Not less erratic has been his course for two years past on the financial question." Death and legacy He died in Corsicana, Texas, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana. Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, was named after him. References Sources Retrieved on 2009-05-04 External links 1832 births 1911 deaths People from Todd County, Kentucky Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives People of Texas in the American Civil War Confederate States Army officers Democratic Party United States senators from Texas Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas 19th-century American politicians Deans of the United States House of Representatives