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==Background==
==Background==
Barham was born to Erle McKoin "Ninety" Barham (1916–1976), a Louisiana native, and the former Rosalie Smith (1913–1999), originally from [[Missouri]]. He graduated in 1955 from Oak Ridge High School and received a bachelor's degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He subsequently obtained a master's degree in ornithology from the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]] (then Northeast Louisiana State College).<ref name=obit/> In the early 1970s, [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]] named Barham to head a [[White House]] conservation initiative.<ref name=farmandfowl/>
Barham was born to Erle McKoin "Ninety" Barham (1916–1976), a Louisiana native, and the former Rosalie Smith (1913–1999), originally from [[Missouri]]. He graduated in 1955 from Oak Ridge High School and received a bachelor's degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He subsequently obtained a master's degree in ornithology from the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]] (then Northeast Louisiana State College).<ref name=obit/> In the early 1970s, [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]] named Barham to head a [[White House]] conservation initiative.<ref name=farmandfowl/>
[[Image:Bennie Barham of LA.jpg|175px|left|thumb|Mrs. Bennie Barham]]
Until his death, Barham was married to the former Bennie Faye Berry (1935-2021), the 1956 "Miss Bastrop" and a music [[educator]] active in the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/us/obituaries/theadvocate/name/bennie-barham-obituary?id=32027944|title=Bennie Faye Berry Barham|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 29, 2021|accessdate=December 30, 2021}}</ref> There are three living Barham children. These include youngest son Robert Berry Barham (born October 1971) and his wife, Camille Robichaux Barham, and their children, Graham Edwards Barham, Bailey Anne McKoin Barham, and Robert Collier Barham, and daughter Amy Barham Westbrook and her husband, Scott Hamilton Westbrook (both born January 1962), and their daughters, Margaret Benjamin Westbrook and Anna Claire Swearingen Westbrook.<ref name=benebobit/>
Until his death, Barham was married to the former Bennie Faye Berry (1935-2021), the 1956 "Miss Bastrop" and a music [[educator]] active in the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/us/obituaries/theadvocate/name/bennie-barham-obituary?id=32027944|title=Bennie Faye Berry Barham|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 29, 2021|accessdate=December 30, 2021}}</ref> There are three living Barham children. These include youngest son Robert Berry Barham (born October 1971) and his wife, Camille Robichaux Barham, and their children, Graham Edwards Barham, Bailey Anne McKoin Barham, and Robert Collier Barham, and daughter Amy Barham Westbrook and her husband, Scott Hamilton Westbrook (both born January 1962), and their daughters, Margaret Benjamin Westbrook and Anna Claire Swearingen Westbrook.<ref name=benebobit/>