- John F. Luecke
John Frederick Luecke (
July 4 ,1889 -March 21 ,1952 ) was a politician from theU.S. state ofMichigan .Luecke was born in
Escanaba, Michigan and attended the public elementary schools. He was employed as a commercial and railroad telegrapher and station agent and served as a private in Company A, Signal Corps,United States Army , with thePunitive Expeditionary Force inMexico in 1916 and 1917.During the
First World War , he served as a sergeant first class, in Company B, Second Field Signal Battalion,American Expeditionary Forces , 1917-1919. He was commissioned asecond lieutenant , Reserve Corps, while inGermany . He engaged as a mill worker in a paper mill in Escanaba, 1923-1936. Luecke was a member of the Escanaba City Council, 1934-1936, a county supervisor of Delta County, 1934-1936. He served in theMichigan Senate in 1935 and 1936.Luecke was elected as a Democrat from
Michigan's 11th congressional district to the75th United States Congress , serving fromJanuary 3 ,1937 toJanuary 3 ,1939 . He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1938, losing to Republican Fred Bradley in the general elections.In 1939, just after leaving Congress, Luecke was appointed commissioner of conciliation for the
United States Department of Labor for upper Michigan and northernWisconsin .Luecke died at the age of sixty-two in Escanaba and is interred there at Lakeview Cemetery.
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