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==Background==
==Background==
Beard was born to Robin Leo Beard, Sr. (1909-1983) and the former Dorothy Rochelle Damon (1918-1996) in [[Knoxville]] in eastern Tennessee.<ref name="legacypost">{{cite web|title=Robin Beard, Jr.|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=robin-beard&pid=89243506&fhid=6307|accessdate=October 29, 2021|publisher=''The Charleston Post and Courier''|date=June 19, 2007}}</ref> He was educated at the prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy and graduated from [[Vanderbilt University]], both institutions in the capital city of [[Nashville]].<ref name="nashpostobit">{{cite web|author=E. Thomas Wood and Ken Whitehouse|title=Remembering Robin Beard|url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/education/vanderbilt-university/article/20401044/remembering-robin-beard|accessdate=March 12, 2018|publisher=''The Nashville Post''|date=June 20, 2007}}</ref><ref name="legacypost"/> He was a first lieutenant in the [[United States Marine Corps]] and thereafter a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.<ref name="nashpostobit"/><ref name=findagrave/>
Beard was born to Robin Leo Beard, Sr. (1909-1983) and the former Dorothy Rochelle Damon (1918-1996) in [[Knoxville]] in eastern Tennessee.<ref name="legacypost">{{cite web|title=Robin Beard, Jr.|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=robin-beard&pid=89243506&fhid=6307|accessdate=October 29, 2021|publisher=''The Charleston Post and Courier''|date=June 19, 2007}}</ref> He was educated at the prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy and graduated from [[Vanderbilt University]], both institutions in the capital city of [[Nashville]].<ref name="nashpostobit">{{cite web|author=E. Thomas Wood and Ken Whitehouse|title=Remembering Robin Beard|url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/education/vanderbilt-university/article/20401044/remembering-robin-beard|accessdate=March 12, 2018|publisher=''The Nashville Post''|date=June 20, 2007}}</ref> He was a first lieutenant in the [[United States Marine Corps]] and thereafter a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.<ref name="nashpostobit"/><ref name=findagrave/>
==Political career==
==Political career==