Frank Lucas (Oklahoma)
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| Vice Chairman of the House Science Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Dana Rohrabacher |
| Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee | |
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In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Collin Peterson |
| Succeeded by | Mike Conaway |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 3rd district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Wes Watkins |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 6th district |
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In office May 10, 1994 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Glenn English |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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Frank Dean Lucas January 6, 1960 Cheyenne, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Lynda Lucas |
| Alma mater | Oklahoma State University, Stillwater |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Frank Dean Lucas (born January 6, 1960) is an American politician. Lucas is the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2003, having previously represented the 6th district, from 1994 to 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party and chairs the House Committee on Agriculture. His district, numbered as the 6th district from 1994 to 2003, is the largest congressional district in the state and one of the largest in the nation that does not cover an entire state. It covers 34,088.49 square miles and stretches from the Panhandle to the fringes of the Tulsa suburbs—almost half of the state's land mass.
On April 7, 2014, Lucas introduced the Customer Protection and End User Relief Act (H.R. 4413; 113th Congress) into the House. The bill would reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission through 2018 and amend some provisions of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
He first ran for the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1984 as a Republican against the incumbent Democrat, narrowly losing. A second attempt in 1986 also fell short, but he won in 1988. He lost in 1990 after the legislature made his district somewhat friendlier to Democrats. However, he returned in 1992.
In 1994, 6th district Congressman Glenn English stepped down to become a lobbyist for rural electric cooperatives. Lucas won the Republican nomination for the special election on May 10. He faced Dan Webber, press secretary to former Governor and U.S. Senator David L. Boren, now president of the University of Oklahoma. The 6th was already by far the largest in the state, stretching from the Panhandle to the town of Spencer, in the far northeastern Oklahoma City metropolitan area. However, the state legislature had redrawn it so that it included many poor Oklahoma City neighborhoods that had never voted Republican. Lucas scored a major upset; he won by eight percentage points, carrying 18 of the district's 24 counties. His victory has been seen by some pundits as an early sign of the wave six months later that saw the Republicans take control of the House for the first time in 40 years. Lucas himself won a full term in that wave and has been re-elected seven times, never dropping below 59 percent of the vote, and even ran unopposed in 2002 and 2004.
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