Robert Luce

Robert Luce

Robert Luce (born December 2, 1862 in Auburn , Maine , †  April 7, 1946 in Waltham , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1941 he represented the state of Massachusetts twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Luce attended public schools in his homeland and in Somerville . He then studied at Harvard University until 1882 . He then went on to teach at Waltham High School for a year . Then he worked in journalism. In 1888 he founded Luce's Press Clipping Bureau in Boston and New York City , of which he was temporarily president. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1899 and between 1901 and 1908 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1908, he began to work in this profession - albeit not intensively. In 1910 he chaired the Massachusetts regional Republican party convention. In 1912 and 1913 Robert Luce was lieutenant governor of his state; from 1914 to 1919 he was a member of the retirement committee for teachers in Massachusetts. He was also a member of a commission for the revision of the state constitution from 1917 to 1919 .

In the 1918 congressional election , Luce was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 13th constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded William Henry Carter on March 4, 1919 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1935 . Since 1933 he represented the ninth district of his state as the successor to Charles L. Underhill . Between 1921 and 1923 he was chairman of the Second Electoral Committee; from 1923 to 1925 he headed the committee responsible for the affairs of veterans of the First World War . In 1919, with the 19th amendment to the Constitution, women's suffrage was introduced nationwide. In 1934 Luce was no longer confirmed.

In the elections of 1936 he was then re-elected to Congress in the ninth district, where he replaced Richard M. Russell on January 3, 1937 , who had been his successor two years earlier. After being re-elected, he was able to spend two more legislative terms in the US House of Representatives until January 3, 1941. There, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt , which the Republican Party was rather hostile to. In 1940 Robert Luce was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he resumed his previous activities. He died in Waltham on April 7, 1946.

Web links

• Robert Luce in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Robert Luce in the database of Find a Grave (English)