Bill Luther

Bill Luther

William Paul "Bill" Luther (born 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 US House of Representatives .

Career

Bill Luther attended Fergus Falls High School until 1963 . He then studied law at the University of Minnesota until 1970 and then began to work as a lawyer. In 1970 and 1971 he was also a federal attorney at the Court of Appeal for the eighth judicial district. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party , which in Minnesota has been called the Democratic Farmer Labor Party since a merger in 1944 .

In 1975 and 1976, Luther was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives ; from 1977 to 1994 he was a member of the State Senate . Since 1983 he was deputy group leader of the Democrats. In the midterm elections in 1994 Luther was in the sixth constituency of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeded the in the January 3, 1995 Senate exchanged Republican Rod Grams took. After three re-elections, he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress until January 3, 2003 .

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

Web links

• Bill Luther in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)