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'''George Earl Hearn''' (September 21, 1926 – September 11, 2010) was, from 1965 to 2000, a [[professor]] of [[psychology]] at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]], and a former two-term member of the Pineville City Council under then [[Mayor]] Fred H. Baden.​

'''George Earl Hearn''' (September 21, 1926 – September 11, 2010) was, from 1965 to 2000, a [[professor]] of [[psychology]] at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]], and a former two-term member of the Pineville City Council under then [[Mayor]] Fred H. Baden.​

 

==Academic career==

==Academic career==

==Political campaigns==

==Political campaigns==

 

Hearn served by appointment on the Rapides Area Planning Commission.<ref name=obit/> On May 3, 1986, Hearn, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], won the first of two terms on the Pineville City Council from District 3, having defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] Robert A. Corley, Jr., by a 57-43 percent margin.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns for Rapides Parish, May 3, 1986.</ref> On April 7, 1990, however, Hearn was unseated, 54-46 percent by the Republican Christian D. "Chris" Cunningham (born October 19, 1959). On March 26, 1994, Hearn won the District 3 council seat by a vote of 71-29 percent over fellow Democrat Arthur J. "Bud" Sweeney, Jr., to score a second nonconsecutive four-year term. In that same election, Cunningham was defeated in a race for mayor by Fred Baden, the last term that Baden would serve.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns: Rapides Parish, March 26, 1994.</ref>

Hearn served by appointment on the Rapides Area Planning Commission.<ref name=obit/> On May 3, 1986, Hearn, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], won the first of two terms on the Pineville City Council from District 3, having defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] Robert A. Corley, Jr., by a 57-43 percent margin.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns for Rapides Parish, May 3, 1986.</ref> On April 7, 1990, however, Hearn was unseated, 54-46 percent by the Republican Christian D. "Chris" Cunningham (born October 19, 1959). On March 26, 1994, Hearn won the District 3 council seat by a vote of 71-29 percent over fellow Democrat Arthur J. "Bud" Sweeney, Jr., to score a second nonconsecutive four-year term. In that same election, Cunningham was defeated in a race for mayor by Fred Baden, the last term that Baden would serve.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns: Rapides Parish, March 26, 1994.</ref>

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==

 

Hearn died at the age of eighty-three in Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He was survived by his wife, Gloria Williams Hearn (born April 22, 1934), and a daughter and son-in-law, Gail Hearn Smith and Andrew Smith of [[New York City]].<ref name=obit/> Gloria Hearn, a retired Pineville educator, was the Democratic candidate in in 2006 for Louisiana's 5th congressional district. She was handily defeated by the then incumbent Republican [[Rodney Alexander]] of Jackson Parish.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Congressional election returns, 2006.</ref> George Hearn was predeceased by the couple's son, George Eugene "Gene" Hearn. Services were held on September 18, 2010, at First Baptist Church in Pineville, where Hearn had long been a long-term member. Hearn was also an ordained minister and served on an interim basis at numerous area churches. He is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>​

Hearn died at the age of eighty-three in Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He was survived by his wife, Gloria Williams Hearn (born April 22, 1934), and a daughter and son-in-law, Gail Hearn Smith and Andrew Smith of [[New York City]].<ref name=obit/> Gloria Hearn, a retired Pineville educator, was the Democratic candidate in in 2006 for Louisiana's 5th congressional district. She was handily defeated by the then incumbent Republican [[Rodney Alexander]] of Jackson Parish.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Congressional election returns, 2006.</ref> George Hearn was predeceased by the couple's son, George Eugene "Gene" Hearn. Services were held on September 18, 2010, at First Baptist Church in Pineville, where Hearn had long been a long-term member. Hearn was also an ordained minister and served on an interim basis at numerous area churches. He is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>​

 

At a ceremony in his honor upon retirement in 2000 from the Louisiana College faculty, Hearn said that he encouraged students to work for the good of man and the glory of [[God]] and that he attempted to direct his students beyond the classroom but in their "overall [[Christianity|Christian]] higher education."<ref name=hearn/>

At a ceremony in his honor upon retirement in 2000 from the Louisiana College faculty, Hearn said that he encouraged students to work for the good of man and the glory of [[God]] and that he attempted to direct his students beyond the classroom but in their "overall [[Christianity|Christian]] higher education."<ref name=hearn/>

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