Luere B. Deasy was born in Gouldsboro, Maine, February 8, 1859 and was educated in public schools there before graduating from Eastern State Normal School in Castine and the Boston University School of Law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and two years later opened an office in Bar Harbor. Brilliant and successful in everything he attempted, Deasy was soon a man of statewide reputation for his ability as a lawyer and his persuasiveness as a speaker.
Until 1896 Deasy was a Democrat. In fact, in 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago and heard William Jennings Bryan deliver his famous "Cross of Gold" speech. While Bryan’s speech captured the Democratic Convention it did not capture Deasy; he and several other capable Maine Democrats were converted to the Republican Party rather than free silver.
A successful businessman, as well as a lawyer, Deasy was eventually appointed by Governor Milliken to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court but not before he had served two terms in the Maine senate, winning his first nomination by a margin of one vote.
In the second term he was elected President of the Maine Senate by virtue of the fact that the heir apparent to that position, Frederick H. Parkhurst of Bangor, was upset at the polls by a Prohibition Democrat.
He probably would have been Governor had not so many been in line ahead of him; but as a lawyer, businessman and Judge, he had an outstanding career in spite of that fact.