Robert Luce (December 2, 1862 – April 7, 1946) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Auburn, Maine, Luce attended the public schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1882, then taught at Waltham High School for a year.

He engaged in journalism, founding and serving as president of the Luce’s Press Clipping Bureau in Boston and New York City. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1899 and 1901-1908. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but did not engage in extensive practice. He served as president of the Republican State Convention in 1910. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1912. He was a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement Board. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention 1917-1919, and served as president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts in 1918. He was Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and was an author, notably on the subject of political science.

Luce was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-January 3, 1935). He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 2 (Sixty-seventh Congress), and the Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation (Sixty-eighth Congress). Along with Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, he introduced the bill that formed the United States Commission of Fine Arts, which governs planning in Washington, D.C.. The bill, the Shipstead-Luce Act, is still in effect.

Luce was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress, but was elected to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1941). He was again unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. Luce resumed his former business pursuits, and died in Waltham on April 7, 1946. He was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

References[link]

• Robert Luce at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Don Robertson (born Donald Irwin Robertson, December 5, 1922, Beijing, China) was an American songwriter and pianist, mostly in the country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956. The track reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year.^[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.^[2]

Although contracted to Capitol at the time of his biggest selling hit single, Robertson subsequently signed a recording contract with RCA Victor. He composed or co-composed with Hal Blair, many hits for other musicians, including Elvis Presley who recorded over a dozen of Robertson's songs, five of which appeared in Presley's numerous films.^[2]

Best known published songs[link]

• "Anything That's Part of You" (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger" (with Doris Clement and John Crutchfield)
• "Born to Be with You"
• "Hummingbird"
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore" (with Walter E. Rollins), (performed by Hank Snow)
• "I Love You More and More Every Day"
• "I Met Her Today" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "I'm Counting on You" (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "I Really Don't Want to Know" (with Howard Barnes)
• "Love Me Tonight" (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Hank Snow)
• "No More" (based on the song "La Paloma", co-written with Hal Blair, performed by Elvis Presley and Dean Martin)
• "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Hank Locklin)
• "Ringo" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Lorne Greene)
• "Stand In" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Don Robertson himself and Jim Reeves)
• "There's Always Me" (performed by Elvis Presley and Jim Reeves)
• "You're Free to Go" (with Lou Herscher)

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External links[link]

• Don Robertson site
• Nashville Songwriters' Foundation Biography of Don Robertson