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| Name | Frank D. Lucas |
| Address | 8551 N 1880 Rd
Cheyenne, Oklahoma , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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January 06, 1960
(64 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | NCdem
Nov 15, 2023 12:56pm |
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| Info | U.S. Representative Frank D. Lucas is serving his fifth full term as a Member of Congress, representing Oklahoma's Third Congressional District. He serves on the Agriculture, Financial Services, and Science Committees, and is currently the Chairman of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
Congressman Lucas is a fifth generation Oklahoman whose family has lived and farmed in western Oklahoma for over 100 years. He operates a farm and cattle ranch in Roger Mills County in far western Oklahoma, where he lives with his wife, Lynda and three children.
Oklahoma's Third Congressional District includes all but one county of Lucas' old Sixth Congressional District, which he had represented since being elected to Congress in a 1994 special election. The district includes all or portions of 32 counties in northern and western Oklahoma, stretching from the Oklahoma panhandle to parts of Tulsa, and from Yukon to Altus in the southwest. It takes up almost half the state's land mass.
Lucas has been elected by an average vote total of 66 percent over the past four general elections. Prior to his service in the U.S. Congress, Lucas served for 5 1/2 years in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives.
Lucas has been a crusader for the agriculture industry since being elected to Congress. He was heavily involved in writing a new comprehensive farm bill, as a member of the 2002 Farm Bill Conference Committee, where he worked with members of the Senate and House to craft a final version of the farm policy legislation. Lucas also authored a comprehensive conservation bill that expanded the farm bill's conservation programs by $16 billion. Most of the bill was included in the 2002 Farm Bill, which was signed into law May 13, 2002.
Since a devastating drought that hit Oklahoma and the Midwest in 2000 and 2001, Lucas has pushed for federal assistance to aid farmers and ranchers dealing with crippling shortages of water and grazing lands. He has worked for additional assistance through ad hoc disaster assistance, through the Livestock Compensation Program, and through the lifting of grazing restrictions on Conservation Reserve Program lands.
Lucas was instrumental in providing a payment on grazed out wheat acres, as well as securing the doubling of the AMTA payment to farm producers. Lucas also received the "Wheat Champion" Award by the National Association of Wheat Growers in 2000 and 2001, for his leadership in Congress representing the agriculture industry. The association also gave Lucas a 100 percent score for his voting record in Congress on behalf of wheat growers for the past two.years. And the American Farm Bureau Federation presented Lucas with the "Friend of the Farm Bureau" award in 2000, in appreciation of those members of Congress who supported Farm Bureau issues through their actions and votes in the 106th Congress. Also, in 2002 the Oklahoma Wheat Commission gave Lucas their "Staff of Life" award for having a 100-percent score in his votes impacting wheat growers and farmers.
Lucas' two-year struggle to gain funding to repair 2,000 crumbling Oklahoma dams is now a reality, with the passage of Lucas' watershed rehabilitation bill. Lucas was awarded the 2001 Congressional Conservation Champion, for his sponsorship of the watershed rehabilitation bill, and for being a champion of private lands and conservation.
Lucas' 100-percent voting record in favor of small businesses has earned him his fifth consecutive "Guardian of Small Business" Award this year from The National Federation of Independent Business(NFIB). He also received the "Champion of Small Business" Award from the Small Business Survival Committee(SBSC) for the third consecutive year.
Lucas believes Oklahomans benefit from less federal government in their daily lives, allowing them to make decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities. In 2002 he was named a "Property Rights Champion" by the League of Private Property Voters, and a "Hero of the Taxpayer" by Americans for Tax Reform.
As well as serving as Chairman of an agriculture subcommittee, Lucas also serves on the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Lucas also serves on two Financial Services Subcommittees - Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises; and Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
On the Science Committee, Lucas serves on two subcommittees - the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee and the Research Subcommittee.
Lucas' first election to Congress was in a special election, to fill out the term of retiring member Glenn English. In his historic special election victory Lucas placed second in a five-candidate primary, earning a spot in a two-man runoff, which he won. In the general election on May 10, 1994, six months before the historic Republican takeover of Congress, Lucas carried 19 of 24 counties while amassing 54 percent of the vote as a Republican in a predominantly Democratic district.
Lucas is a member of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Farmer's Union, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, Oklahoma Shorthorn Association, and the Kiwanis Club of Cheyenne. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1982 with a degree in Agricultural Economics.
Lucas was born January 6, 1960 in Cheyenne (Roger Mills County), Oklahoma.
The Lucas' are members of First Baptist Church in Cheyenne
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