Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician who served as the 79th Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Dean was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Presidential Election, 2004. His implementation of the fiftystate strategy as head of the DNC, as well as his campaigning methods during the 2004 presidential campaign, are considered significant factors behind Democratic victories in the 2006 congressional elections and the 2008 presidential election. Afterwards, he became a political commentator and consultant.

Dean was born in East Hampton, New York, to Andre Belden , an art appraiser, and Howard Brush Dean, Jr., an executive in the financial industry. He is the eldest of four brothers, including Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America, and Charles Dean, who was captured by the Pathet Lao and purportedly executed by the North Vietnamese while traveling through Southeast Asia in 1974.

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