Oscar Raymond Luhring

Oscar Raymond Luhring ( born February 11, 1879 in Haubstadt, Gibson County, Indiana; † August 20, 1944 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Oscar Luhring attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began to work in Evansville in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1903 and 1904 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. Between 1908 and 1912 Luhring worked as a deputy prosecutor.

In the congressional elections of 1918, he was elected in the first district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of George K. Denton on March 4, 1919. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 two legislative sessions. During this time, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. In 1923 Luhring defeated Democrat William E. Wilson.

Between 1923 and 1925 Oscar Luhring worked for the Federal Ministry of Labour. In 1925 he was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge appointed Deputy Minister of Justice ( Assistant Attorney General ); In 1930 he became a judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This office he held until his death on August 20, 1944.