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Oscar Raymond Luhring Oscar Raymond Luhring Oscar Raymond Luhring (February 11, 1879 – August 18, 1944) was a United States federal judge. Born in Haubstadt, Indiana, the grandson of German immigrants, 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