Karl Dean

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Karl Dean, 2013
2007

Karl Foster Dean (born September 20, 1955 in Sioux Falls ) is an American politician ( Democrat ) and former mayor of Nashville .

Life

Dean was born the second of three brothers in South Dakota and spent part of his childhood in Wisconsin . Dean's father worked for IBM . Dean attended middle and high school in Gardner , Massachusetts . He studied law at Columbia University in New York City . In 1978 he completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts . By 1981 he received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville . This was followed by a job as a lawyer for a law firm in Worcester .

In Nashville, Dean worked as a public defender from 1990. He became Metro Law Director in 1999 until he was elected Mayor of Nashville in 2007. For the election campaign, he used funds from an inheritance from his wife's uncle, Joe C. Davis, a former coal-mining entrepreneur to a large extent. The high proportion of these own donations in the total use of funds was sharply criticized by his opponent Bob Clement . In August 2011 he was re-elected until 2015. In 2018 he ran for governor of Tennessee , but was defeated by Republican Bill Lee .

family

Dean is married to lawyer Anne Davis, whom he met while studying in Nashville, and has two daughters and a son. Karl Dean grew up in a Lutheran family and later converted to Catholicism , to which his wife belongs.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brooke Wanser, Democratic candidate Karl Dean appeals to "pragmatic" voters in run for governor from June 24, 2018 on www.williamsonhomepage.com (English)
  2. ↑ Liz Garrigan, Yankee Doodle Dean of August 30, 2007 at www.nashvillescene.com (English)
  3. ↑ It's Dean. Nashville Post (online newspaper), September 11, 2007, accessed on January 18, 2020 (English): “[...] sizable donations he made to his own campaign. Dean was capable of making those donations because his wife, Anne Davis, inherited a fortune from her uncle, the late coal mining magnate Joe C. Davis. "
  4. ↑ Karl Dean signed the Golden Book on November 6, 2012 at www.magdeburg.de
  5. ↑ Liz Garrigan, Yankee Doodle Dean of August 30, 2007 at www.nashvillescene.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dean, Karl Foster (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democrat) and former mayor of Nashville
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Sioux Falls