Dean Barkley
Politician
Minnesota politician who was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2002 after Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash.
He received his BA from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and his JD from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1976. He volunteered for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign.
He ran as the Independence Party's candidate for the Senate in 2008, but came in third to Al Franken and Norm Coleman.
He has a daughter named Brooke.
He was chairman of Jesse Ventura's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1998 and was later appointed to the Senate.