Alfred Lucking

Alfred Lucking ( born December 18, 1856 in Ingersoll, Canada, † December 1, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1858 Alfred Lucking came with his parents in the city Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1878 admitted to the bar he began in Jackson to work in his new profession. In 1880 he moved his office and his residence to Detroit. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1900 and 1924 he was several times chairman of the regional party conferences in Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Lucking in the first election District of Michigan was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Blaisdell Corliss on March 4, 1903. Since he Republican Edwin Denby defeated in the elections of 1904, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1905. 1912 ran unsuccessfully Lucking for the U.S. Senate. From 1914 to 1923 he worked as a consultant and attorney for the Ford Motor Company. He also became president of the Detroit - Vancouver Timber Co. In 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, the John W. Davis was nominated as a presidential candidate. Alfred Lucking died on December 1, 1929 in Detroit.

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