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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MichiganJohn Frederick LUECKE
(1889-1952)
LUECKE, John Frederick, a
Representative from Michigan; born in Escanaba, Delta County,
Mich., July 4, 1889; attended the public elementary schools;
employed as a commercial and railroad telegrapher and station
agent; served as a private in Company A, Signal Corps, United
States Army, with the Punitive Expeditionary Force in Mexico in
1916 and 1917; during the First World War served as a sergeant
first class, in Company B, Second Field Signal Battalion, American
Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919; commissioned a second lieutenant,
Reserve Corps, while in Germany; engaged as a mill worker in a
paper mill in Escanaba, Mich., 1923-1936; member of the Escanaba
City Council 1934-1936; county supervisor of Delta County, Mich.,
1934-1936; served in the State senate in 1935 and 1936; elected as
a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January
3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the
Seventy-sixth Congress; in 1939 was appointed commissioner of
conciliation for the United States Department of Labor for upper
Michigan and northern Wisconsin; died in Escanaba, Mich., March 21,
1952; interment in Lakeview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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