Drayton Boucher
Drayton Rogers Boucher was a Louisiana state legislator from Springhill in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana, affiliated with the Long faction of state Democratic politics. Boucher represented Webster Parish for a single fouryear term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940. and three terms in the State Senate from a combination district including Webster and Bossier parishes from 1940 to 1952. In the Senate, he succeeded Coleman Lindsey of Minden, who in 1939 became lieutenant governor upon the succession to the governorship of Earl Kemp Long.
Boucher was born in Springhill to Robert Riley Boucher and the former Lula K. Rogers . The couple married on November 14, 1905. Bouchers mother died before she was thirty and when he was less than two years of age, and his father subsequently married the former Carrie Cook. Three children, Drayton Bouchers halfsiblings, Gus, Rupert, and Alleane, later married to Floyd Haynes, were born from his fathers second marriage. Robert Bouchers father and hence Draytons grandfather, Augustus C. Boucher , was a native of Harpersville in Shelby County, Alabama. Augustuss wife, Drayton Bouchers paternal grandmother, was Jennie B. Cox , a Louisiana native.
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