Ted Daley

Who is Ted Daley?

Theodore J. "Ted" Daley is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 38, which included most of Eagan and a small portion of Burnsville in Dakota County, which is in the southeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Republican, he is a certified public accountant and a member of the United States Army Reserve.

Daley was first elected in 2010. He lost reelection in 2012 to Jim Carlson. He was a member of the Education, the Jobs and Economic Growth, and the State Government Innovation and Veterans committees. His special legislative concerns were education reform, an improved business climate, less government spending, and veterans affairs.

Daley graduated from Preston-Fountain High School in southeastern Minnesota, then went on to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating with a double language major in Russian and German and a minor in Engineering. He was assigned to Korea, then to the 101st Airborne Division, serving in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm in 1990-1991 during the Gulf War. In 1996, after leaving active duty and joining the U.S. Army Reserve, he earned his M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul.