Robert P. Dean (1909–1984) was an American farmer, Merchant Marine, and Democratic politician born in Ridgely, Maryland, in Caroline County.
Dean was a four-term Maryland State Senator representing the Upper Eastern Shore from Queen Anne's County starting in 1954 through 1967.
[1] serving on committees that included Judicial Proceedings, Finance, Banking and Insurance, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries.
He was instrumental in the organization of Chesapeake College and Tuckahoe State Park in his district.
His brother was three-term Caroline County Commissioner Charles T. Dean, Sr.