Senator Yvonne Miller, 77, had been ill for some time with cancer. PHOTO/File
Senator Yvonne B. Miller, the longest-serving woman in the Virginia Senate, died Tuesday, according to Senate Clerk Susan Clarke Schaar.
Miller, who would have turned 78 on Wednesday, had battled stomach cancer in the past year and missed several weeks of the 2011 legislative session.
Miller was the first African-American woman elected to Virginia's state legislature.
She was a career educator and an
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