Ron Bean
| Ronald Clarence "Ron" Bean | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 38th district |
|
|
In office 1992–2004 |
|
| Preceded by | Richard G. Neeson |
| Succeeded by | Sherri Smith Buffington |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 4, 1938 Shreveport, Caddo Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | April 19, 2005 (aged 66) Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Nationality |
 United States
|
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Second wife, Carol Grady Bean (born 1946) |
| Children | Mary Elizabeth Bean Elizabeth Ann Bean Kershaw John E. Bean (1961–2000) |
Ronald Clarence Bean, known as Ron Bean (November 4, 1938 – April 19, 2005), was a Republican state senator from Shreveport, Louisiana. He served from 1992 to 2004 and was hailed by his peers for nonpartisanship.
Bean was a United States Army soldier with service in South Korea and Vietnam and a pilot decorated for heroism. Bean died of renal failure at the LSU Medical Center in his native Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish and the largest city in north Louisiana. He had undergone two kidney transplants and suffered from steadily declining health since 2001.
Bean's friends said that he never lost his notable sense of humor. Besides the kidney transplants, Bean contracted pneumonia, which required hospitalization in 2003, back surgeries, a helicopter crash in 1973 that led to his health problems, and the strains of politics. He outlived two of his three children.
"He was snake bit," said then Democratic Senate President Don Hines of Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, a physician who for eight years sat behind Bean in the Senate. "As soon as he got over one problem he'd have another one. But I never heard him complain one time. He met adversity and then went on with it and never let it affect his personal outlook or his demeanor or his relationship with anybody."
In 2001, Bean collapsed just outside the Senate chambers. He'd taken medication that knocked his blood pressure down to zero, said Hines who, along with others, revived Bean with CPR before emergency medical help arrived.
...
Wikipedia