Sharon Day is the former
United States Ambassador to Costa Rica
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Costa Rica. On February 16, 2022, Cynthia Telles was sworn in as the 60th ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica.
See also
* Costa Rica – United States re ...
. She previously served as the co-chairwoman of the
Republican National Committee
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.
She resigned on January 20, 2021.
Career
Day owned an insurance company in
Indianapolis 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
precinct committeeman
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in 1994, state Republican committeeman for
Broward County
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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
James A Greer (born June 8, 1962) is an American former politician and businessman, serving from 2006 to 2010 as the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, and senior political and campaign adviser to the governor.
Career
Politics
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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
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
She has been a lifelong Republican.
She was married to Larry Day, whom she built the insurance company with. They have two children. Larry died in 2012.
References
External links
US Ambassador biographySharon Day at ballotpedia.org*
1950s births
Living people
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
American women ambassadors
Florida Republicans
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