H. A. Boucher

Henry Aristide "Red" Boucher ( born January 27, 1921 in Nashua, New Hampshire, † June 19, 2009 in Anchorage ) was an American politician.

Boucher was born in 1921 in New Hampshire. After he went to high school in Massachusetts, he served from 1937 to 1957 in the United States Navy. 1958 Boucher moved to Alaska and settled in Fairbanks. His move to Alaska was at the request of Senator John F. Kennedy. This was that Boucher is operated politically for the Democratic Party in the fledgling state. Boucher Kennedy had been supported in his re-election campaign for the Senate elections in 1956. In Fairbanks Boucher ran a sporting goods store and managed the Alaska Goldpanners, a company founded by him in 1960 based in Alaska baseball team, eleven years. Due to his commitment to the team and the baseball total Boucher is one of the most important figures of professional baseball in Alaska.

Boucher's political career began in 1961 when he was until 1964 a member of the City Council of Fairbanks (Fairbanks City Council). 1966 to 1970 he was mayor of the city. In 1970 he ran for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and was able to prevail against the Republican incumbent Robert W. Ward. Since the Office only received his designation as Deputy Governor by a constitutional amendment in 1970, Boucher was in a sense the first, which was also referred to as lieutenant governor. However, did not alter the functions of the Office. In the elections of 1974 Boucher was defeated by Republican challenger Lowell Thomas junior. Then he withdrew into the business and ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Anchorage. 1984 Boucher was elected to the House of Representatives from Alaska, where he served from 1985 to 1990.