Dean Barkley Senator
Dean Malcolm Barkley (born August 31, 1950) is a politician who served as a member of the United States Senate from Minnesota. A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party (the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning, and appointed Barkley to the Senate after the death of Paul Wellstone. Barkley ran as the Independence Party's candidate for the Senate in 2008, coming third to Al Franken and Norm Coleman.
