Background
Urdahl, Dean was born on August 18, 1949.
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Urdahl, Dean was born on August 18, 1949.
Urdahl graduated from Litchfield High School in Litchfield. He attended Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, earning a Bachelor of Surgery in Social Studies.
He is also a retired teacher and coach. His roots run deep in the area, as his ancestors helped to settle Litchfield Township in 1856. He got his start in politics working on United States. Representative John Zwach"s campaign staff in 1970.
Urdahl was an American History teacher and coach for the New London-Spicer School District from 1971-2006.
He has served on the Minnesota Education in Agriculture Leadership Council, the Minnesota Commission on Public Service Reform, and on the Minnesota State Board of Nursing. In July 2008, he was appointed as the Minnesota representative to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
In 2012 Urdahl was named co-chair of the Minnesota Civil War Sesquicentennial Task Force. From 2010-2012 he chaired the Legacy Division in the Minnesota House.
Urdahl was instrumental in obtaining funding for the Minnesota state capitol restoration and was named to serve on the Capitol Restoration Commission which was established through his committee.
His four latest books have been historical fiction set in Minnesota during the Dakota War of 1862
Urdahl was first elected in 2002, and has been re-elected every two years since then
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Republican Party of Minnesota, Republican Party.
A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represents District 18A, which includes portions of McLeod, Meeker, and Wright counties in the central part of the state just west of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Also an author, Urdahl has written a book about former members of the Minnesota Twins baseball team and about famous Minnesotans.
Married Karen Urdahl. 3 children.