Sharon Day is the former

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. She previously served as the co-chairwoman of the

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. She resigned on January 19, 2021.

Career

Day owned an insurance company in

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with her husband. They sold the company, which had 156 employees, in the early 1990s and retired to South Florida. Day has served on different Republican Party committees on the local, state, and national level since the 1990s. Day became a

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in 1994, state Republican committeeman for

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in 1996, national committeewoman representing Florida in 2004, and national party secretary in 2009. She lost a bid for national party chair in 2010 when Jim Greer resigned. She has served as national party co-chair since 2011 and has been re-elected into 2015.

Personal life

Day resided in the Galt Mile neighborhood in

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. She has been a lifelong Republican. She was married to Larry Day. They have two children. Larry died in 2012.

References

External links

US Ambassador biography

Sharon Day at ballotpedia.org

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