Dixie Sansom | |
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Member of the FloridaHouseofRepresentatives from the 32nd district | |
In office 1984–1992 | |
Preceded by | Tim Deratany |
Succeeded by | Bill Posey |
Personal details | |
Born | 1948or1949(age 74–75) Kansas,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Alma mater | Pensacola Junior College University of West Florida |
Dixie Newton Sansom (born 1948or1949) is an American politician in the state of Florida. A Republican,she was a member of the Florida House of Representatives for the 32nd district between 1984 and 1992. She ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1992 to represent Florida's 15th district,although she lost in the Republican primary. She later worked as executive director of the Medical Society of Brevard County,director of communications for the Division of Community Colleges and director of governmental relations and public affairs for the Canaveral Port Authority. She founded The Sansom Group/Dixie Sansom Government Relations Consulting in 2006.
Sansom was born in Kansas in 1948 or 1949,the daughter of a newspaper librarian. [1] [2] Her cousin is fellow Florida legislator Ray Sansom. [3] She studied at Pensacola Junior College and the University of West Florida before moving from Pensacola to Brevard County,Florida,in 1969,shortly after her marriage to Jerry Sansom. [1] [2] [4] [5] Her husband spent most of his career as executive director for the Organized Fishermen of Florida. [6] Sansom began her career as a clerk at Creel Elementary School in Melbourne,Florida. She then worked as a reporter for the Miami Herald and the Melbourne Times . [2] In the 1970s,her husband decided to study at Florida State University and Sansom began asking around about jobs in Tallahassee,which was how she was hired as a press aide for the politician Clark Maxwell Jr.,a position that she held for 10 years. [1] [2] [4]
A Republican,Sansom was elected to the Florida House of Representatives for the 32nd district in the April 1984 special election,after the former representative Tim Deratany resigned to run for a seat in the Florida Senate. [1] [4] [7] She was focused on beach restoration and vocational education. [1] She led the effort to pass legislation to stop sewage systems from discharging into the Indian River Lagoon and obtaining funding for The Haven for Children. [4] In the 1990 general election,she beat the Democrat Gene Newberry to retain her seat,receiving 67.4% of the vote. [8] [9] Sansom served as a Republican floor leader. [4]
In 1992,Sansom ran for the United States House of Representatives to represent Florida's 15th district,a seat held by the Democrat Jim Bacchus. [2] [4] She lost in the Republican primary on September 1,1992,to Bill Tolley,receiving 46% of the vote,while Tolley received 54% of the vote. [10] During the primary campaign,she was criticized for her pro-choice position on abortion and Tolley argued that she should not have used a photo of her and fellow state legislator Marilyn Evans-Jones in her campaign,as it implied that Evans-Jones had endorsed her. [11]
After losing the election,Sansom first worked as the executive director of the Medical Society of Brevard County and then as the director of communications for the Division of Community Colleges. She then joined the Canaveral Port Authority as the director of governmental relations and public affairs. [2] In 2006,she founded the consulting firm The Sansom Group/Dixie Sansom Government Relations Consulting. [4]
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