Milton Talent
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Milton O. Talent (died October 27, 2002, St. Louis, Missouri) was a labor-management attorney , and a Des Peres, Missouri alderman. He is best known for being the father of Missouri Senator Jim Talent. After graduating in 1935 from Harvard Law School, Talent founded in 1952 the law firm that became Moller, Talent, Kuelthau & Welch, which specialized in labor relations and employment law. In 1988, the firm merged into Lashly, Baer & Hamel.
He was appointed to the Missouri Board of Mediation by former Gov. John Ashcroft to handle worker disputes. Earlier in his career, he was a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. He joined the U.S. Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served during World War II.