Oscar R. Luhring
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Oscar Raymond Luhring (February 11, 1879 - August 20, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born in Haubstadt, Indiana, Luhring attended the public schools. He was graduated in law from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1900. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Evansville, Indiana. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1903 and 1904. Deputy prosecuting attorney of the same circuit 1908-1912.
Luhring was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress. He served as special assistant to the Secretary of Labor 1923-1925. He was appointed by President Coolidge to be Assistant Attorney General of the United States on September 9, 1925. He was appointed by President Hoover as an associate justice of the supreme court for the District of Columbia (now United States District Court) on July 3, 1930, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., August 20, 1944. He was interred in the Abbey Mausoleum, adjoining Arlington National Cemetery. He was reinterred in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia.
