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Louis H. Bean (April 15, 1896 – August 5, 1994) was an American economic and political analyst. Born in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, Bean migrated to the United States in 1906 with his family. In 1923, he became a member of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working on estimates of farm income and price indices. Bean's charts were used in Congress in discussions about the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. He was closely associated with Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Bean wrote for The Review of Economics and Statistics. During the late 1930s, Bean developed an interest in political analysis. After his successful near-unique prediction of Harry S. Truman's victory in the 1948 presidential election, Life called him the "Lone Prophet" of Truman's victory. Bean wrote many books, notably Ballot Behavior and How to Predict Elections. He continued making electoral analyses and projections in the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were accurate. (Full article...)

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as i am aware that this featured article's fac nominator prefers to keep comments out of the blurb itself, i thought it would be more appropriate for me to provide the reasoning for my edits here on the blurb talk page instead.

(April 15, 1896 – August 5, 1994)	▶	lifespan generally included in biographical blurbs (note: full dates generally used in lifespan when blurb's run date is anniversary of featured subject's birth date)
Lithuania  →  Lithuania	▶	extant countries generally not linked in blurbs
United States  →  U.S.	▶	abbreviated to conform with character limit
in 1906	▶	added detail as when bean migrated seems important since he did so when he was young, while the blurb otherwise only suggests that he did so sometime between 1896 and 1923
Bean was closely  →  He was closely   and   He wrote  →  Bean wrote	▶	transposed nouns to avoid suggesting that wallace wrote for the review
Vice President	▶	added detail as many main page readers are likely unfamiliar with wallace
articles for the journal,	▶	removed to conform with character limit, as the title suggests that it is a journal and that writers contribute articles to it
successful and near-unique	▶	removed to conform with character limit
referred to him as  →  called him	▶	reworded to conform with character limit
He died in 1994.	▶	removed to conform with character limit, as it is already mentioned in lifespan at start of blurb

as usual, anyone should feel free to revert any of my changes if they disagree with my reasoning. dying (talk) 20:29, 6 April 2023 (UTC)