{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (1888–1947)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Philip Lutz Jr. | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = 27th Indiana Attorney General | term_start = January 1, 1933 | term_end = January 1, 1937 | governor = Harry G. Leslie, Paul V. McNutt | appointer = | predecessor = James M. Ogden | successor = Omer Stokes Jackson | alma_mater = Indiana University Bloomington }}
'''Philip C. Lutz Jr.''' (August 28, 1888 – May 22, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the twenty-seventh Indiana Attorney General from January 1, 1933, to January 1, 1937.<ref>{{cite web |title=Attorneys General of Indiana |url=https://www.in.gov/library/collections-and-services/reference/attorneys-general-of-indiana/ |website=Indiana State Library}}</ref><ref name="Cottman">{{cite web |last1=Cottman |first1=George S. |title=Centennial history and handbook of Indiana. |url=https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inauthors/view?docId=VAB9592;chunk.id=d1e20490;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=ia-books;doc.view=0;query=&hit.rank= |website=Indiana University}}</ref><ref name="Lincoln">{{cite book |title=Indiana Cities & Towns |date=1925 |publisher=Lincoln Financial Foundation |url=https://archive.org/details/indianacitiestowlinc}}</ref><ref name="Logansport">{{cite news |title=Former High State Official Succumbs |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/logansport/logansport-press/1947/05-23/page-2/ |agency=Logansport Press |date=23 May 1947}}</ref>
==Biography== ===Early life and education=== Lutz was born in Boonville, Indiana.<ref name="Cottman"/>
Lutz attended Indiana University in Bloomington, receiving both his BA and his LL.B. from the school. In addition to his legal career, Lutz ran a peony farm in Boonville.<ref name="Cottman"/><ref name="Logansport"/><ref name="Alum">{{cite journal |title=Indiana University Alumni Quarterly |date=1916 |volume=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9okmAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>
===Political career=== Lutz, a Democrat, served as a clerk of the Indiana General Assembly in the 1911 and 1913 legislative sessions. In 1915, he served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing Warrick County. In 1916, Lutz became juvenile judge of Warrick County.<ref name="Cottman"/><ref name="Alum"/>
In 1932, Lutz was elected to succeed James M. Ogden as Indiana Attorney General. He served his term in the administration of Democratic Governor Paul V. McNutt. In 1934, Lutz was involved with the extradition of John Dillinger from Tucson, Arizona back to Indiana. Dillinger would be placed in Lake County Jail in Crown Point, but would later escape and die months later in a shootout in Chicago. Lutz successfully defended a law that fixed the price of milk before the U.S. Supreme Court following a legal challenge by the Kroger Grocery & Baking Company in 1936. Lutz also issued a number of opinions related to Indiana medical law, setting limits on who can practice podiatry in the state of Indiana and deciding that mental asylum officials could perform sexual sterilizations with a court order. Lutz also issued an unofficial opinion stating that township trustees were still responsible for temporary medical care of those in poverty, even as Governor McNutt was reforming welfare in the state in the era of the New Deal. Lutz was succeeded to the office by Omer Stokes Jackson.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Girardin |first1=George Russell |title=Dillinger: The Untold Story |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=345 |isbn=0253216338 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w1rFmxkYxaQC&q=%22Philip+Lutz%22+%22Indiana%22+%22Attorney+General%22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association |date=1936 |publisher=Indiana State Medical Association |url=https://archive.org/details/journalofindiana2911indi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=October Term, 1936 |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/journals/scannedjournals/1936_journal.pdf |website=Supreme Court of the United States}}</ref>
===Personal life and death=== Lutz was involved with the erection and dedication of a historical marker in Boonville, commemorating Abraham Lincoln’s connection to the town. On July 4th, 1935, Lutz gave a patriotic address in Rockport at the dedication ceremony of the Lincoln Pioneer Village.<ref name="Lincoln"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ehrmann |first1=Bess |title=The missing chapter in the life of Abraham Lincoln; a number of articles, episodes, photographs, pen and ink sketches concerning the life of Abraham Lincoln in Spencer County, Indiana, between 1816-1830 and 1844 |date=1938 |publisher=University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |url=https://archive.org/details/missingchapterin00ehrm}}</ref>
Lutz died of a heart attack in 1947.<ref name="Logansport"/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lutz, Philip}} Category:1888 births Category:1947 deaths Category:People from Boonville, Indiana Category:Indiana attorneys general Category:Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni Category:Democratic Party members of the Indiana House of Representatives Category:20th-century members of the Indiana General Assembly