Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Howard Dean, Chris Dodd, Henry M. Jackson, Tim Kaine, Terry McAuliffe, Ed Rendell, Cordell Hull, James Farley, Robert Schwarz Strauss, Paul G. Kirk, Larry O'Brien, Robert Milligan McLane, August Belmont, Abram Hewitt, Ron Brown, Homer Stille Cummings, Roy Romer, Calvin S. Brice, John J. Raskob, Charles Taylor Manatt, David Wilhelm, J. Howard McGrath, Fred R. Harris, Donald Fowler, Vance Criswell McCormick, William Henry Barnum, John Moran Bailey, Thomas Taggart, Robert E. Hannegan, William M. Boyle, John C. White, Kenneth M. Curtis, Edward J. Flynn, James Kimbrough Jones, William F. Harrity, Stephen A. Mitchell, Frank Comerford Walker, Steve Grossman, Norman Edward Mack, Augustus Schell, Benjamin F. Hallett, George White, Joe Andrew, David Allen Smalley, Debra DeLee, Frank E. McKinney, Jean Westwood, William F. McCombs, Paul Butler, Clem L. Shaver. Excerpt: Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S. Presidential campaign was unsuccessful, Dean is regarded as a pioneer in raising the profile of internet based fundraising and grassroots organizing. Before entering politics, Dean earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978. Dean was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1982 and was elected lieutenant governor in 1986. Both were part-time positions that enabled him to continue practicing medicine. In 1991, Dean became governor of Vermont when Richard A. Snelling died in office. Dean was subsequently elected to five two-year terms, serving from 1991 to 2003, making him the second longest-serv...