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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaOscar Raymond LUHRING
(1879-1944)
LUHRING, Oscar Raymond, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Haubstadt, Gibson County,
Ind., February 11, 1879; attended the public schools; was graduated
in law from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1900;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Evansville, Vanderburg County, Ind.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1903 and 1904; deputy prosecuting attorney of
the same circuit 1908-1912; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the
Sixty-eighth Congress; special assistant to the Secretary of Labor
1923-1925; appointed by President Coolidge to be Assistant Attorney
General of the United States on September 9, 1925; appointed by
President Hoover as an associate justice of the supreme court for
the District of Columbia (now United States District Court) on July
3, 1930, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., August 20,
1944; interment in the Abbey Mausoleum, adjoining Arlington
National Cemetery; reinterment in National Memorial Park, Falls
Church, Va.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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