Paul Luebke
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Paul Luebke (January 18, 1946 – October 29, 2016) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 30th House District, which includes constituents in Durham County. A professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Luebke served eleven<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> consecutive two-year term in the state House of Representatives.
Childhood and education
Luebke was born on January 18, 1946,<ref name="indyweek">Template:Cite web</ref> in Chicago, Illinois, to Paul and Eunice Luebke. His father was a teacher and education administrator and his mother was a homemaker.Template:Citation needed Luebke spent his childhood living in Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis. During his high school years he moved to Ankara, Turkey, where his father worked as an education advisor to the Turkish government for the U.S. Foreign Aid Program.
While living in Turkey he studied at Privatschule der deutschen Botschaft, a German embassy school in Ankara, from 1959 until 1962.
After high school, Luebke attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.<ref name=TheTorch>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1966 he earned a bachelor of arts in government from Valparaiso University in Indiana. He earned a doctorate in political sociology from Columbia University in 1975.<ref name="congressorg">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
After graduate school he moved to the Durham area.<ref name="indyweek"/>
Career
Luebke taught sociology at Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, from 1971 to 1975. He taught sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1976. Luebke began teaching sociology at UNC Greensboro in 1976 and was awarded tenure in 1982.
He was a member of the sociology faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing in political sociology.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He served on the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority from 1987 until 1991. He served as a board member of the North Carolina Consumers Council as a consumer rights advocate.
He was elected to the state House of Representatives in Durham's District 23, which then had three members, in 1990 and took up his position in 1991.<ref name="indyweek"/>
As of February 2011 Luebke represented District 30<ref name="indyweek"/> and was a member of the following committees:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Agriculture
- Education
- Finance
- Government
- Public utilities
- Rules, calendar and operations of the House
He was a chairman of the Finance committee and of the select committee on Municipal Annexation,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as vice-chairman of the Election Law, Campaign Finance Reform and Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House committees. He was also a member of the Energy and Energy Efficiency committee and the Environmental and Natural Resources committee.
He thought of himself as a "Progressive Democrat" and said that "I am especially proud that, during the 1990s, I led the bipartisan effort to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries; and that, in 2009, I was a primary House sponsor of the Racial Justice Act."<ref name="indyweek"/> Luebke died of lymphoma on October 29, 2016, at the age of 70, while still in office.<ref name=death>Template:Cite news</ref>
Books
Luebke wrote of two books about North Carolina politics: Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (1990)<ref name=1stBook>Template:Cite book</ref> and Tar Heel Politics 2000 (1998).<ref name=2ndBook>Template:Cite book</ref>
Electoral history
2016
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2012
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2010
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2008
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2006
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2000
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Committee assignments
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2015-2016 session
- Finance (Vice Chair)
- Environment
- Local Government
- Public Utilities
2013-2014 session
- Finance (Vice Chair)
- Agriculture
- Education
- Environment
- Government
- Public Utilities
2011-2012 session
- Finance
- Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Agriculture
- Education
- Government
- Public Utilities
2009-2010 session
- Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform
- Energy and Energy Efficiency
- Environment and Natural Resources
- Finance
- Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
References
External links
- NC General Assembly, "North Carolina General Assembly - Representative Paul Luebke". ncleg.net. Retrieved on 2011-02-10
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