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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsRobert LUCE
(1862-1946)
LUCE, Robert, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine, December 2, 1862; attended the public schools of
Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Mass., and was
graduated from Harvard University in 1882; taught in the Waltham
(Mass.) High School for a year; engaged in journalism, founding and
serving as president of the Luce’s Press Clipping Bureau in
Boston and New York in 1888; Republican member of the State house
of representatives in 1899 and 1901-1908; studied law and was
admitted to the bar in Boston in 1908, but did not engage in
extensive practice; president of the Republican State convention in
1910; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1912; member of the
Massachusetts Teachers Retirement Board 1914-1919; delegate to the
State constitutional convention 1917-1919; president of the
Republican Club of Massachusetts in 1918; Regent of the Smithsonian
Institution 1929-1931; author, notably on the subject of political
science; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and the seven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-January 3, 1935); chairman,
Committee on Elections No. 2 (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on
World War Veterans’ Legislation (Sixty-eighth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress; elected to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses
(January 3, 1937-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed his
former business pursuits; died in Waltham, Mass., April 7, 1946;
the remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Mount Auburn
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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