Robin Leo Beard, Jr. (August 21, 1939 – June 16, 2007) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee who served from 1973 to 1983.
Beard was a graduate of Nashville's prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy and Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was a former lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He later moved to Somerville, a suburb of Memphis.
In 1970, ...
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Robin Leo Beard, Jr. (August 21, 1939 – June 16, 2007) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee who served from 1973 to 1983.
Beard was a graduate of Nashville's prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy and Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was a former lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He later moved to Somerville, a suburb of Memphis.
In 1970, Beard was appointed Tennessee personnel commissioner by newly elected Republican Governor Winfield Dunn. In 1972, he entered the GOP primary for the newly-reconfigured seventh Congressional District. It was widely speculated that the district had been drawn in such a way as to put incumbent Democrat William Anderson of Waverly in a precarious position as punishment for his presumed liberalism and his musings about running for vice president in 1972. Also, many Democrats still remembered Anderson's 1962 gubernatorial bid as an independent...
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