Dean Duane Benson (August 5, 1945 – January 26, 2019) was an American football linebacker and politician.

[2] Benson was a charter member of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, created in 2012 to oversee construction of the state's new professional football stadium.

[4] Benson was founding co-director of the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation which brought together civic and business leaders to raise $20 million which was invested between 2006-2011 in support of finding approaches to ensure all Minnesota children enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Benson died from cancer, on January 26, 2019, at the Methodist Hospital-Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota.

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