Luther C. Peck

Luther Christopher Peck ( * January 1800 in Connecticut; † February 5, 1876 in Nunda, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Luther Peck attended preparatory schools. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. In the meantime, he practiced this in Allegheny County in Pennsylvania and later in Pike, New York. In his respective home, he held several local offices. Politically, he joined the Whig party to.

In the congressional elections of 1836 Peck was in the 30th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Young on March 4, 1837. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1841 two legislative sessions. Since 1839 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Luther Peck practiced as a lawyer again. In the 1850s he joined the Republican Party, founded at that time. He died on 5 February 1876 in Nunda.