Date Died: Living

Place Buried: TBD

Occupation: Lawyer, Banker

Lamar High School - graduated 1975
Clemson University - majored in Microbiology, 1976-1978
University of South Carolina - Juris Doctorate

South Carolina House of Representatives, 1979-1992
– Chairman, House Education and Public Works Commission, 1989-1990
– Chairman, SC Mining Council, 1985-1986
– Majority Leader, 1987-1988
– Chairman, Joint Legislative Commission on Education, 1987
– Vice Chairman, Joint Legislative Commission on Children, 1987
– Speaker Pro Tempore, January 10, 1991-1992

General Election 1994 - Beasley defeated Nick A. Theodore for the office of governor

1998 – Governor Beasley ran for a second term but was defeated by James H. Hodges

Beasley was only 20 years old and in his junior year at Clemson when he ran for the South Carolina House of Representatives.

Beasley served as the youngest Speaker pro tempore and Majority Leader in the nation during his years in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1979-1992

Board of Trustees, University of South Carolina, 1990-91

Board of Trustees, Francis Marion College, 1988-91

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