Luther Elkins

{{Short description|American politician (1809–1887)}}

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| office = President of the Oregon State Senate

| termstart = 1860

| termend = 1861

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| successor = Wilson Bowlby

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| birth_date = May 26, 1809

| birth_place = Cornville, Maine

| death_date = {{death date and age|1887|12|13|1809|5|26|mf=y}}

| death_place = Oregon

| party = Democrat

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Luther Elkins (May 26, 1809 – December 13, 1887) was an American politician and pioneer in the state of Oregon. Born in Cornville, Massachusetts (in Maine from 1820 on) and married to Philotheta Williams, he migrated to Oregon Territory in 1852,{{cite web|url=http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/Pages/during-about-elkins.aspx|title=Biographical Sketch of Luther Elkins|work=Crafting the Oregon Constitution|publisher=Oregon State Archives|accessdate=2023-02-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024081050/http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/Pages/during-about-elkins.aspx|archive-date=October 24, 2021|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last1=Terry|first1=John|title=Luther Elkins presided over not-so-civil war in Oregon politics|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=April 3, 2010|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2010/04/luther_elkins_presided_over_no.html |accessdate=2014-12-28}} overland via the Oregon Trail. He served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was a delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention. He was elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1858, serving in the 1859 special session, for which he was selected as the Oregon Senate's first President.[https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Documents/elections/history-officials.pdf Oregon Blue Book: Earliest Authorities in Oregon - Senate Presidents of Oregon.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2014-06-23. He also served in the 1860 regular session, again as president.

He died in 1887, on December 13,{{cite web|title=Luther Elkins|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26702233|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=2014-12-28}} and is buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Lebanon, Oregon.