Luther Severance (October 26, 1797 – January 25, 1855) was a United States representative and diplomat from Maine.

He attended the common schools, and learned the printer's trade in Peterboro, New York.

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses in the United States House of Representatives (March 4, 1843–March 3, 1847).

[1] He was vice president of the Whig National Convention in 1848.

He served as United States commissioner (diplomatic rank similar to that of Ambassador) to the Kingdom of Hawaii 1850 through the end of 1853.