George Russell Boucher (13 December 1899 – 8 November 1970) was a

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and

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. Born in

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, Boucher (pronounced like voucher, not as in the French) was elected to the

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in an August 1940 by-election as a Member of the Conservative Party to represent the riding of Carleton. He succeeded

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who died shortly after his re-election in the March 1940 federal election. He was a member of the ''Joint Committee on Location of the Seat of Government in the City of Ottawa''. Boucher was re-elected in

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as a Progressive Conservative. He resigned his seat in 1948 in order to allow new party leader George A. Drew, who did not have a seat in the House of Commons, to contest Carleton in a

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Electoral record

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* 1899 births 1970 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Canadian people of Irish descent 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub