Election To Congress
Lufkin was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman Augustus P. Gardner.
Lufkin was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from November 6, 1917, to June 30, 1921, when he resigned to accept a Treasury position. Lufkin was appointed by President Warren G. Harding to be collector of customs at the Port of Boston on July 1, 1921, and served until his retirement in 1933. He was again elected a member of the Essex School Board, and served as Town Moderator of the town meeting in 1925. Lufkin died in Essex on March 28, 1934. His interment was in Essex Cemetery.
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