Jim Dean (activist)

James H. Dean is chair of Democracy for America (DFA), the nation's largest political action committee, based in Burlington, Vermont. DFA was founded in 2004 after the presidential campaign of Dean's brother, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Jim Dean has raised money, given speeches, and organized for DFA in his home state of Connecticut. Jim Dean also raised money for his brother's previous political campaigns, and worked full-time on Howard Dean's first race, his 1986 run for lieutenant governor of Vermont.

Before 2002, Dean worked in marketing, business development, and sales at Yankelovich Partners and Greenfield Online. Jim, his wife Virginia, and their three children live in Fairfield, Connecticut. James, Howard, and their brother Bill were brothers of Charles Dean, who was abducted and killed by communist guerrillas in Laos in 1975.

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