John Frederick Luecke (July 4, 1889 – March 21, 1952) was a politician from the U.S. state of

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. Luecke was born in Escanaba, Michigan to

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immigrants 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,

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, with the Punitive Expeditionary Force in

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in 1916 and 1917. During the

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, he served as a sergeant first class, in Company B, Second Field Signal Battalion, American Expeditionary Forces from 1917 to 1919. He was commissioned a

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, Reserve Corps, while in

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. He engaged as a mill worker in a paper mill in Escanaba from 1923 to 1936. Luecke was a member of the Escanaba City Council from 1934 to 1936 and a county supervisor of Delta County from 1934 to 1936. He served in the

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in 1935 and 1936. Luecke was elected as a

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from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the 75th United States Congress, serving from January 3, 1937, to January 3, 1939. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1938, losing to Republican

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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 northern

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. Luecke died aged 62 at his home in Escanaba and is interred there at Lakeview Cemetery.

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at ''The Political Graveyard'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Luecke, John F. 1889 births 1952 deaths American people of German descent County commissioners in Michigan People from Escanaba, Michigan Michigan city council members Democratic Party Michigan state senators United States Army soldiers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan 20th-century American politicians