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Frank Lucas: “Since I was 17, I've been a wheat farmer and cattleman back…”

Featuring: Frank Lucas, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, District 3

City Connections - U.S. Representative Frank Lucas

Published March 12, 2018 | Video Starts at 01:39

And you've been serving the state in D.C. since 1994. Absolutely. And before that, I spent five and a half years in the state legislature representing a rural statehouse district. And Since I was 17, I've been a wheat farmer and cattleman back home in Roger Mills County. Well, I know about wheat farming. Growing up in Perry, I used to work in wheat harvest at the grain elevator in Lucene, Oklahoma, and I shoveled many, many scoops of wheat. (01:39–01:44)

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Asserts his long-term experience as a wheat farmer and cattleman in Roger Mills County.

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