Gauthier, Timothy J. (Timothy John), 1958-
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Timothy John Gauthier was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1958. His father became a police officer at University of California at Santa Barbara, and Gauthier spent most of his childhood in that city. He attended Santa Barbara City College, then transferred Southern Utah State College (now Southern Utah University), where he earned a business degree in 1975. He then began working for the National Electrical Contractors Association in Washington, D.C.; Kansas City, Kansas; and Portland, Oregon. He worked closely with Edward L. Barnes of IBEW Local 48 in Portland, and was involved in the establishment of the Market Recovery Program (M.R.P.) in 1982, which uses union dues to supplement union wages. He married in 1984 and had two children.