Bearden resigns House seat for job as education advocate

Friday, July 13, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 6:40 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

JEFFERSON CITY — Republican Rep. Carl Bearden, the No. 2 ranking member in the Missouri House, resigned Thursday to take an advocacy job in which he could end up lobbying his former colleagues on education issues.

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