How was Lincoln ever elected? by The Miller Center at UVA published on 2020-10-15T16:05:56Z In 2000, William Lee Miller visited the Miller Center to discuss the election of 1860. Miller, who passed away in 2012, chaired the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies and directed the Program in Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia. He wrote several books on Abraham Lincoln and slavery. Genre Learning