Willfred W. Lufkin

Willfred Weymouth Lufkin was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Essex on March 10, 1879. He attended public schools. After completing school, he was a newspaper correspondent, and a private secretary to Congressman Augustus P. Gardner. He was a member and chairman of the Essex School Board, and a member of the State constitutional convention 1917-1919.

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman Gardner. He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from November 6, 1917, to June 30, 1921, when he resigned to accept a Treasury position. Lufkin was appointed by President Warren G. Harding to be collector of customs at the Port of Boston on July 1, 1921, and served until his retirement in 1933. He was again elected a member of the Essex School Board, and served as moderator of the town meeting in 1925. Lufkin died in Essex on March 28, 1934. His interment was in Essex Cemetery.

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