[1] He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor in 1878, and was admitted to the bar the same year.

[1] In 1902, Lucking defeated incumbent Republican John Blaisdell Corliss to be elected as a Democratic candidate from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the Fifty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1903, until March 3, 1905.

[3][4][5] Lucking was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress and resumed the practice of law in Detroit.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1912.

[10] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress