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Elizabeth Ann Bean Kershaw 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. ==Humor amid personal problems== 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 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. "Some guys are funny-funny; to me, Ron was the kind of guy who was funny with a very dry sense of humor," said former Democratic State Senator Donald G. Kelly of Natchitoches: "I can't ever recall seeing him mad; I've seen him aggravated, but never mad. He was just ... a great guy." Bean and Gregory Tarver, another state senator from Shreveport, met while serving on the Caddo Parish Police Jury (equivalent of county commission in other states). Though Bean was a white Republican and Tarver an African American Democrat, the two found that they could work together and became close friends. "I used to drive to his house late at night and we'd go places together; we just became big buddies. ... I could tell you a lot of funny things Ron did and I did, but none of them for print. He was a character," said Tarver. Bean often told Tarver, whose family is in the funeral home business, that he'd be "the first white man you'll ever have to bury." "That was our standing joke," Tarver said, laughing loudly. "I told him that my family had been in the business for 105 years, and we ain't buried a white man yet. We'd joke about that all the time." Kelly said much of the talk among legislators at the funeral only days earlier for State Senator John Hainkel of New Orleans was of their friend Bean. Hines, who succeeded Hainkel as Senate President, said that it had "been a tough, tough few days we've had here." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ron Bean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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