Richard Dean Mulder (May 8, 1938 – February 14, 2022) was an American politician and family physician in the state of Minnesota.
[1] In 2004, he served as a Minnesota state delegate at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York.
[3] Mulder ran unsuccessfully as an Independent Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992.
[4] Running again with the party in 1994, Mulder won the District 21B election over Democratic incumbent Andy Steensma, 7,198 votes to 6,261.
[5] In 1996, Mulder defended a state law supporting the practice of "drive-through" infant deliveries, saying "I made sure my wife stayed in the hospital five days, but then she told me it was a waste of money...