Rick boucher biography

Frederick Carlyle Boucher (/ˈbaʊtʃər/; born August 1, 1946) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011.
Frederick C. Boucher, better known as Rick, was born on August 1st, 1946 in Abingdon, Virginia.
Frederick Carlyle Boucher is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011.

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Rick Boucher

Prior offices

U.S. House Virginia District 9

Successor: H. Morgan Griffith

Personal

Rick Boucher was a Democratic representative of the U.S. House from the 9th District of Virginia.^[1]

Elections

2010

Boucher lost the race on November 2, 2010 when he ran for re-election against Morgan Griffith, with Boucher's 46% to Griffith's 51%.^[2]^[3] Boucher raised $2.46 million, while Griffith raised $569,000 in campaign contributions.^[4]

Voting record

Frequency of Voting with Democratic Leadership

According to a July 2010 analysis of 1,357 votes cast from January 1, 2009 to June 16, 2010, Boucher has voted with the House Democratic leadership 96.1% of the time.^[5] That same analysis reported that he also voted with party leadership 94.5% of the time in 2010.

Washington Post Analysis

A separate analysis from The Washington Post from July 23, 2010, concluded that he votes 96.5% of the time with a majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives.^[6]

External links

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Biography of Rep. Rick Boucher

Rep. Boucher

Representative Rick Boucher, Democrat, Ninth District, Virginia.

Background. Rick Boucher is one of the most active Members of Congress on high tech issues. He is one of many legislators from rural districts who see the benefits that universal use of broadband converged communications will bring to rural and remote areas of the country. He devotes considerable time and energy to passing laws that will aid in speeding the deployment of new technologies. And in particular, he does not want to see remote areas, like far western Virginia, left out of the broadband revolution.

"It tends to be people from rural America who have a very large say in what happens with Internet technology policy," Rep. Boucher told Tech Law Journal in November of 1998, because, "we see a bridge to the future in Internet technology for our districts."

This page was last updated on July 10, 1999.

"I would like to see information based businesses move to Southwest Virginia," he added. "Now with broadban

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Oral History with Rick Boucher Part 1, June 28, 2023 (Ms2021-048)

Description

Frederick C. Boucher, better known as Rick, was born on August 1st, 1946 in Abingdon, Virginia.

Rick's long career in law and public service was heavily influenced by his upbringing and parents. His mother, Dorothy Buck Boucher, was a pioneer of women practicing law as she was in the first female class graduating from University of Virginia, School of Law in 1945, and became the first female lawyer working west of Roanoke. She later worked in Abingdon as a real estate lawyer and was the Democratic Chairman of the Political Party in Washington County. Rick's father, Ralph Emerson Boucher, was similarly a lawyer, primarily working criminal defense and was elected the Commonwealth's Attorney in Washington County for the Republican Party for several terms. This political opposition stressed the importance of bipartisanship and later inspired him to follow the family tradition in law and civil service.

He attended Roanoke College, where he studied political science and economics, with t