Rick Boucher

Frederick Carlyle "Rick" Boucher ( born August 1, 1946 at Washington County, Virginia) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 2011 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rick Boucher visited the Abingdon High School until 1964 and then until 1968, the Roanoke College in Salem. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1971 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1974 and 1983 he was a member of the Senate of Virginia.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Boucher was in the ninth constituency of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William C. Wampler on January 3, 1983. After 13 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2011 a total of 14 legislative periods. There he was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary Committee and in three sub-committees. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. In 2010, he was defeated by Republican Morgan Griffith.

Since the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Federick Boucher works as a lawyer at the law firm Sidley Austin.