Oscar Raymond Luhring

Oscar Raymond Luhring
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
In office July 3, 1930 – August 18, 1944
Appointed by	Herbert Hoover
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Henry Albert Schweinhaut
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
In office 1925–1930
President	Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover
Preceded by	William J. Donovan
Succeeded by	E. Nugent Dodds
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 1st district
In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923
Preceded by	George K. Denton
Succeeded by	William E. Wilson
Personal details
Born	(1879-02-11)February 11, 1879 Haubstadt, Indiana
Died	August 18, 1944(1944-08-18) (aged 65) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican

Oscar Raymond Luhring (February 11, 1879 – August 18, 1944) was a United States federal judge.

Born in Haubstadt, Indiana, the grandson of German immigrants,^[1] Luhring attended the public schools and received a B.L. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1900. He entered private practice in Evansville, Indiana in 1900. He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1903 to 1904. He was a Deputy prosecuting attorney of First Judicial Circuit of Indiana from 1904 to 1908. He was a Prosecuting attorney of First Judicial Circuit of Indiana from 1908 to 1912. Luhring was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923) and was also an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress. He was a Special assistant to U.S. secretary of labor, Washington, D.C. from 1923 to 1925. He was appointed by Calvin Coolidge as Assistant U.S. attorney general for the Criminal Division in 1925 and served until 1930.

On June 23, 1930, Luhring was nominated by President Herbert Hoover to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia created by 46 Stat. 785. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 3, 1930, and received his commission the same day. Luhring served in that capacity until his death, in Washington, D.C. He was interred in Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington County, Virginia, and reinterred in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia.

References

• Oscar Raymond Luhring at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• United States Congress. "Oscar Raymond Luhring (id: L000505)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.