Luckey, C. Edwin (Clarence Edwin), 1919-1997
Biography
Clarence Edwin Luckey was born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1919. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1940 and the University of Oregon Law School in 1942. From 1942 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a weather observer in California and a judge advocate in England during World War II. He met Arlette Micheletti in Paris, France, and they married before returning to the U.S.; they later had two children. When he returned to Oregon, he was appointed as Lane County deputy district attorney by Governor Earl Snell, and quickly rose to district attorney. In 1954, he was appointed as U.S. attorney for the district of Oregon. He then served as a bankruptcy judge from 1961 until his retirement in 1983. He died in 1997.
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Oral history interview with C. Edwin Luckey
Oral history interview with C. Edwin Luckey conducted by James N. Westwood on January 20, 1990, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Luckey was an attorney and bankruptcy judge in Oregon.