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William Beardsley (born July 4, 1942) is an American politician from Maine. A resident of Ellsworth, Maine, Beardsley served as the Commissioner of Conservation in the cabinet of Maine Governor Paul LePage from 2011 to August 2012 after serving from 1987-2009 as the President/CEO of Husson University in Bangor, Maine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Commissioner William Beardsley - Biography - Project Vote Smart )〕 He ran in the Maine Republican Party's primary for Governor in 2010, finishing 5th of 7 candidates behind eventual general election winner Paul LePage. He was appointed by LePage in early 2011 to be Commissioner of Conservation. As Conservation Commissioner, Beardsley sought to reform the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission, a body established in 1971 that serves "as the planning and zoning authority for areas that do not have the capacity to administer land use controls (principally, townships and plantations )."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Commission )〕 He was criticized by environmental groups and some Democratic Party legislators, who Beardsley criticized as "elitist". In August 2012, Beardsley was appointed to an open seat on the State Board of Education after the Department of Conservation was merged with the Department of Agriculture. ==Education and Early Life== Beardsley was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He earned a B.A. from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.〔 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「William Beardsley (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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