| 词条 | Robin Beard |
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| name = Robin Leo Beard Jr. | smallimage = Robin Beard.jpg | state = Tennessee | district = 6th | term_start = January 3, 1973 | term_end = January 3, 1983 | preceded = William R. Anderson | succeeded = Al Gore | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|8|21}} | birth_place = Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|6|16|1939|8|21}} | death_place = Isle of Palms, South Carolina, U.S. | death_cause = Brain cancer | resting_place = | nationality = American | party = Republican | spouse = Catherine Beard | alma_mater = Vanderbilt University }} Robin Leo Beard Jr. (August 21, 1939 – June 16, 2007) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th congressional district, who served from 1973 to 1983. Early lifeBeard was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.[1] He was educated at Montgomery Bell Academy and graduated from Vanderbilt University,[2] where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.[1] He was a former colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.[2] Political careerIn 1970, Beard was appointed Tennessee personnel commissioner by newly elected Republican Governor Winfield Dunn.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} In 1972, he entered the GOP primary for the newly reconfigured 6th Congressional District.[2] The district had been significantly redrawn by the state legislature, which shifted several Republican-trending portions near Memphis into the Sixth and removed several solidly Democratic areas.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} In November, Beard defeated Anderson by twelve percentage points. Beard's victory was not considered an upset, given the considerably more Republican bent of the redrawn district. Beard worked this district well over the next decade, building up a large following in a district where most of the living residents had never been represented by a Republican before; conservative Democrats continued to hold most of the district's seats in the state legislature well into the 1980s. Proving just how Republican this district had become at the national level, Beard was easily reelected in 1974 with 56.6 percent of the vote even as Republicans across the country were turned out of office due to anger over Watergate. In 1976, Beard faced former Senator Ross Bass, who had represented the 6th from 1955 to 1964. However, Bass found himself running in territory that he did not know and did not know him, and lost by almost 29 points. Beard took over 74 percent of the vote in 1978, and was unopposed in 1980. Beard did not run for a sixth term in the 1982 elections, opting instead to run for the Republican nomination to oppose freshman Democratic Senator Jim Sasser. While Beard won the primary, he lost in a massive 20-point landslide. The Republicans would not win another statewide race until 1994, when they captured the governorship and both Senate seats.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Beard was appointed as a NATO deputy secretary-general in Belgium from 1984 to 1987, and from 1992 to 1995.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Beard later ran a Washington, D.C.-based import-export business and was at one time a resident of Alexandria, Virginia.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Beard retired to Charleston County, South Carolina, where he later ran for a seat on the county school board in 2006 (Arthur Ravenel, Jr., also a former U.S. Representative, ran successfully in the race.){{citation needed|date=March 2018}} DeathBeard died from a brain tumor in Isle of Palms, South Carolina.[3][4] His funeral was held at the Huguenot Church in Charleston, South Carolina.[3] References1. ^1 {{cite news|title=Robin Beard Jr.|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=robin-beard&pid=89243506&fhid=6307|accessdate=March 12, 2018|work=The Post and Courer|date=June 19, 2007|via=Legacy.com}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite news|last1=Wood|first1=E. Thomas|last2=Whitehouse|first2=Ken|title=Remembering Robin Beard|url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/education/vanderbilt-university/article/20401044/remembering-robin-beard|accessdate=March 12, 2018|work=The Nashville Post|date=June 20, 2007}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Allison|title=Former U.S. Rep. Robin Leo Beard Jr. dies at 67|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/278272347/?terms=%22Robin%2Bleo%2BBeard%22|accessdate=March 12, 2018|work=The Tennessean|date=June 19, 2007|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 4. ^{{cite news|last1=Waldo|first1=Tenisha|title=Former Congressman Beard dies at age 67|url=http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/17/former_congressman_beard_dies_at_age/|accessdate=March 12, 2018|work=The Post and Courier|date=June 17, 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203021135/http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/17/former_congressman_beard_dies_at_age/|archivedate=December 3, 2007|df=}} External links{{Portal|Biography||United States Marine Corps|Tennessee|Virginia|South Carolina}}
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