Robin Beard
| Robin Leo Beard, Jr. | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | William R. Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Al Gore |
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August 21, 1939 Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Died | June 16, 2007 (aged 67) Charleston, South Carolina |
| Cause of death | Brain cancer |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | 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.
A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Beard graduated from the prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy and Vanderbilt University, both in Nashville. He was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was a former colonel 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 6th 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 against their nominee, Frank G. Clement. The Democrats in the state legislature shifted several Republican-trending portions near Memphis into the Sixth and removed several solidly Democratic areas.
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