Paul Luebke

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Paul Luebke
Member of the
North Carolina House of Representatives
In office
January 1, 1991 – October 29, 2016
Preceded bySharon Thompson
Succeeded byPhilip Lehman
Constituency23rd District (1991-2003)
30th District (2003-2016)
Personal details
Born(1946-01-18)January 18, 1946
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedOctober 29, 2016(2016-10-29) (aged 70)
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materValparaiso University (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Occupationeducator

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[1] consecutive two-year term in the state House of Representatives.

Childhood and education[edit]

Luebke was born on January 18, 1946,[2] in Chicago, Illinois, to Paul and Eunice Luebke. His father was a teacher and education administrator and his mother was a homemaker.[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.[3] 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.[4][5][6]

After graduate school he moved to the Durham area.[2]

Career[edit]

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.[7]

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.[2]

As of February 2011 Luebke represented District 30[2] and was a member of the following committees:[8]

  • 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,[9] 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."[2] Luebke died of lymphoma on October 29, 2016, at the age of 70, while still in office.[10]

Books[edit]

Luebke wrote of two books about North Carolina politics: Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (1990)[11] and Tar Heel Politics 2000 (1998).[12]

Electoral history[edit]

2016[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2016[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 37,094 73.85%
Republican Elissa Fuchs 13,132 26.15%
Total votes 50,226 100%
Democratic hold

2014[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2014[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 23,535 100%
Total votes 23,535 100%
Democratic hold

2012[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2012[15]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 33,697 100%
Total votes 33,697 100%
Democratic hold

2010[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2010[16]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 13,442 64.52%
Republican Jason Chambers 7,393 35.48%
Total votes 20,835 100%
Democratic hold

2008[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2008[17]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 25,265 85.78%
Libertarian Sean Haugh 4,189 14.22%
Total votes 29,454 100%
Democratic hold

2006[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2006[18]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 12,033 100%
Total votes 12,033 100%
Democratic hold

2004[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2004[19]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 21,245 88.10%
Libertarian Sean Haugh 2,870 11.90%
Total votes 24,115 100%
Democratic hold

2002[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 30th district general election, 2002[20]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 14,017 84.64%
Libertarian Terry Mancour 2,543 15.36%
Total votes 16,560 100%
Democratic hold

2000[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives 23rd district Democratic primary election, 2000[21]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 15,105 31.15%
Democratic Mickey Michaux (incumbent) 14,256 29.40%
Democratic Paul Miller 10,238 21.12%
Democratic George W. Miller Jr. (incumbent) 8,886 18.33%
Total votes 48,485 100%
North Carolina House of Representatives 23rd district general election, 2000[22]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Luebke (incumbent) 57,471 33.70%
Democratic Mickey Michaux (incumbent) 51,329 30.10%
Democratic Paul Miller 44,521 26.11%
Libertarian Robert Dorsey 9,819 5.76%
Libertarian Raymond Ubinger 7,397 4.34%
Total votes 170,537 100%
Democratic hold
Democratic hold
Democratic hold

Committee assignments[edit]

[23]

2015-2016 session[edit]

  • Finance (Vice Chair)
  • Environment
  • Local Government
  • Public Utilities

2013-2014 session[edit]

  • Finance (Vice Chair)
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Government
  • Public Utilities

2011-2012 session[edit]

  • Finance
  • Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Government
  • Public Utilities

2009-2010 session[edit]

  • Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform
  • Energy and Energy Efficiency
  • Environment and Natural Resources
  • Finance
  • Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

References[edit]

  1. ^ House Principal Clerk's Office (2011-01-07). "House of Representatives Terms served in General Assembly, House and Senate including 2011". North Carolina General Assembly. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Candidate questionnaires: Paul Luebke". Independent Weekly. Durham, NC. 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  3. ^ "Board Selects Heads Of Publications, WVUR". The Torch. Apr 21, 1964. Retrieved Nov 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Rep. Paul Luebke (D-NC 30th District)". Congress.org. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  5. ^ "Alumni authors". Valparaiso University. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  6. ^ "North Carolina manual [serial]". 1916.
  7. ^ "Faculty and publications". The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  8. ^ "Committee Assignments". Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  9. ^ "Annexation public hearing moved to larger room". SalisburyPost.com. Post Publishing Co. 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  10. ^ "Long-serving Durham legislator Paul Luebke dies at 70". The News & Observer. Oct 30, 2016. Retrieved Oct 30, 2016.
  11. ^ Luebke, Paul (1990). Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807818848.
  12. ^ Luebke, Paul (1998). Tar Heel Politics 2000. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807847565.
  13. ^ [1] North Carolina State Board Of Elections.
  14. ^ [2] North Carolina State Board Of Elections.
  15. ^ [3] North Carolina State Board Of Elections.
  16. ^ [4] North Carolina State Board Of Elections.
  17. ^ [5] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  18. ^ [6] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  19. ^ [7] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  20. ^ [8] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  21. ^ "NC State House 023 - D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  22. ^ "NC State House 023". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  23. ^ "Paul Luebke". ballotpedia. Retrieved 2021-09-24.

External links[edit]

North Carolina House of Representatives
Preceded by
Sharon A. Thompson
 Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
from the 23rd district
1991–2003
Served alongside: Mickey Michaux, George W. Miller Jr., Paul Miller 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
from the 30th district
2003–2016 		Succeeded by
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