Bill Luther

William Paul "Bill" Luther (* June 27, 1945 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2003 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bill Luther attended until 1963 the Fergus Falls High School. Then he studied until 1970 at the University of Minnesota, among others, Jura and then began to work as a lawyer. In the years 1970 and 1971 he was Attorney General at the Court of Appeals of the Eighth Judicial District. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party, which in Minnesota since a merger in 1944 called the Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party.

In the years 1975 and 1976 Luther was sitting as a deputy in the House of Representatives from Minnesota; 1977 to 1994 he was a member of the State Senate. Since 1983, he was Deputy Group Head of Democrats. In the congressional elections in 1994, Luther was in the sixth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the exchanged in the Senate Republican Rod Grams on January 3, 1995. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2003, four coherent legislative periods.

In 2002, Luther was not re-elected. This was partly because this time he was a candidate in the second district in which the Republican Party was stronger. In 2006 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the Attorney General of Minnesota.