WASHINGTON _ Luther Strange of Alabama, who is replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Senate, is the second Sen. Strange in history.
Robert Strange of North Carolina served from 1836 to 1840. He was a Jacksonian Democrat and was the chairman of the Committee on Patents and Patent Office.
Strange resigned after four years to practice law in Fayetteville, N.C.
There have been other Luthers in Congress, but the last left more than 70 years sgo.
One was also from Alabama _ Luther Patrick was elected as a Democrat to the House in 1937 and served until 1943.
The other was Luther Alexander Johnson, a former Democratic congressman from Texas, who served from 1923 to 1946.
If either of these congressmen was also nicknamed "Big Luther" like Alabama's new senator is, it is lost to history.
