Alfred Lucking (December 18, 1856 – December 1, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from the
U.S. state
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of
Michigan
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. He served as a member of the
United States House of Representatives
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, and was general counsel for the
Ford Motor Company
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and the
Henry Ford
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interests.
Early life
Lucking was born in
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* Ingersoll, Ontario
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in the
Province of Canada
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and moved with his parents to
Ypsilanti, Michigan
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As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 20,648. The city is bounded to the north by Superior Township and on the west, south, and ...
, in 1858 where he attended public schools,
Ypsilanti High School
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, and the Michigan State Normal College (now
Eastern Michigan University
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).
He graduated from the
University of Michigan Law School
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in
Ann Arbor
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in 1878, and was
admitted to the
bar
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the same year. He began the practice of law in
Jackson, Michigan
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.
Career
He moved to
Detroit
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,
Michigan
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, in 1880 and continued the practice of law. He was temporary chairman of the Democratic State Convention in 1900 and was both temporary and permanent chairman of the State conventions in 1902, 1908, and 1924. He was permanent chairman in 1928.
In 1902, Lucking defeated incumbent
Republican
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John Blaisdell Corliss
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to be elected as a
Democratic candidate from
Michigan's 1st congressional district
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to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1903, until March 3, 1905.
Lucking was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1904 to the
Fifty-ninth Congress and resumed the practice of law in Detroit. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
United States Senate
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in 1912. He later became general counsel for the
Ford Motor Company
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and the
Henry Ford
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interests from 1914 to 1923, and was industrialist
Henry Ford's personal attorney.
He also served as president of the Detroit-Vancouver Timber Company. He was a delegate to the
1924 Democratic National Convention
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.
Death
Lucking died in Detroit on December 1, 1929, just before his seventy-third birthday.
He is
interred
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at
Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.
Family life
Lucking was the son of Joseph Alfred Lucking and Margaret Ellen Ford.
He married Sarah Laviah Rose on February 23, 1881. They had two sons, William A. Lucking and Dean L. Lucking.
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1856 births
1929 deaths
Burials in Michigan
Eastern Michigan University alumni
Michigan lawyers
Politicians from Detroit
People from Ingersoll, Ontario
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)
19th-century American lawyers