BRACK: Beard is longest serving city official in Gwinnett: 46 years

By Elliott Brack  |  Buford’s Philip Beard feels that he has not one, but two distinctions: he has served consecutively as a city official for 46 years, longer than anyone in Gwinnett.  He’ll start his 47th year on September 1, 2021.  All this time he has been the chairman of the City Commission, and also chairman of the Buford City Schools Board.

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