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 US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1858, Alfred Lucking and his parents came to the town of Ypsilanti , Michigan, where he attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission as a lawyer in 1878, he began to work in Jackson in his new profession. In 1880 he moved his office and residence to Detroit. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1900 and 1924 he was several times chairman of their regional party conventions in Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1902 Lucking was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded John Blaisdell Corliss on March 4, 1903 . Since he was defeated by the Republican Edwin Denby in the elections of 1904 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1905 . In 1912 Lucking ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . From 1914 to 1923 he worked as a consultant and lawyer 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 , where John W. Davis was nominated as a presidential candidate. Alfred Lucking died in Detroit on December 1, 1929.

Web links

• Alfred Lucking in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alfred Lucking in the database of Find a Grave (English)