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'''Ronald Clarence Bean''', known as '''Ron Bean''' (November 4, 1938 – April 19, 2005),<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14580107/ronald-clarence-bean|title=Ronald Clarence Bean|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 31, 2019}}</ref> was a [[Republican Party |Republican]] state senator from his native [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. A [[Moderate Republican]], Bean served from 1992 to 2004<ref name=ssenate/> and was hailed by his peers for "nonpartisanship.
'''Ronald Clarence Bean''', known as '''Ron Bean''' (November 4, 1938 – April 19, 2005),<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14580107/ronald-clarence-bean|title=Ronald Clarence Bean|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 31, 2019}}</ref> was a [[Republican Party |Republican]] state senator from his native [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. A [[Moderate Republican]], Bean served from 1992 to 2004<ref name=ssenate/> 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. He died of renal failure at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport. He had undergone two [[kidney]] transplants and suffered from steadily declining health since 2001.<ref name=findagrave/>
Bean was a [[United States Army]] soldier with service in [[South Korea]] and [[Vietnam]] and a pilot decorated for heroism. He died of renal failure at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport. He had undergone two [[kidney]] transplants and suffered from steadily declining health since 2001.<ref name=findagrave/>
==Humor amid personal problems==
==Humor amid personal difficulties==
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.<ref name=findagrave/> He outlived two of his three children.
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.<ref name=findagrave/> He outlived two of his three children.