Ken Mills, 83, East Side Democrat
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Kenneth Mills, an East Side political stalwart who was executive producer of Community Board 8’s cable show, “CB 8 Speaks,” died August 4 at 83. For decades a fixture at political meetings of all sorts, he was known to friends as “the petition king.”
Mills worked on the campaigns of Rep. and then Mayor Koch, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller.
A long-time resident of the silk stocking district, Mills served as a Democratic district leader between 1969 and 1978, and was president of the Lexington Democratic Club in the 1960s and again from 1995-2000.
He was a delegate to the Democratic presidential conventions in 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1996.
He worked as a vice president for press relations at the Chase Manhattan Bank, retiring in 1994.
