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Charles Julian Bouchard (April 25, 1911 – July 13, 1992) was a member of the
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Biography

Bouchard was born on April 25, 1911, in
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. He attended
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. He joined the
United States Merchant Marine United States Merchant Marines are United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels. Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, an ...
s on September 10, 1943, during World War II."Index Record for Charles Bouchard (1910) Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File", ''Fold3 by Ancestry.com website''. Retrieved August 20, 2020. He was as an officer with service in the North Atlantic and South Pacific. He was discharged from the Merchant Marines on June 26, 1944. He Married Catherine Everall on October 5, 1936. They were in the restaurant business in Superior, Wisconsin, and in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, before moving the Brule, Wisconsin where they ran the Brule Cabin Court from 1948 to 1964. Mrs. Bouchard died in 1963. They had four children: Kay Frances (1941), Robert (1946), Charles (1951) and Margie (1954). Robert died in a traffic accident in October 1949.


Political career

Bouchard was a member of the Assembly from 1963 to 1964. Previously, he was chairman of
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, and a member of the
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Board. He was a
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References

1911 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American politicians Politicians from Superior, Wisconsin County supervisors in Wisconsin Military personnel from Wisconsin United States Merchant Mariners of World War II Green Bay East High School alumni Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Democratic-stub