Willfred W. Lufkin

Will Fred Weymouth Lufkin ( born March 10, 1879 in Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts, † March 28, 1934 ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1921 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Willfred Lufkin attended the common schools and worked as a newspaper correspondent. Between 1902 and 1917 he was private secretary to Congressman Augustus Peabody Gardner. He also officiated in the years 1901 to 1906 as chairman of the school board in his hometown of Essex. Between 1917 and 1919 he was one of a committee on the revision of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Augustus Gardner as congressman Lufkin was in the due election for the sixth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1917. After two re- elections he could remain until his resignation on June 30, 1921 in Congress. During this time, ended the First World War. During his time in Congress, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Lufkins resignation was after his appointment as head of the customs authority at the port of Boston by President Warren G. Harding. A post he held 1921-1933. Meanwhile he sat again in the school committee of the city Essex. There he is on 28 March 1934, died.