Dan is a successful businessman, family man and a community leader who has spent his life  building things and giving back  to the community.

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Dan grew up in a blue-collar town and learned the value of hard work from his father who worked for more than 40 years as a union carpenter. A top student, Dan was awarded a degree in political science, with honors, from Amherst College where he also studied economics. While in college, he served as a Congressional intern in the Capitol Hill office of Congressman Gregory Carman (R). Dan went on to earn his MBA in finance and management from the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Dan helped pay for these degrees with summer and part-time work as a carpenter, starting at age 16.

After graduating from Wharton, Dan worked for close to a decade as a portfolio manager for one of the world’s largest pension funds. In this role, he made billions of dollars of successful investments without any losses, a rare feat that caught the eye of the investment community.

He went on to other roles in finance, becoming a leading expert in the bond market while working at Merrill Lynch. During a career in which he is credited with starting multiple successful business units, Dan raised tens of billions of dollars of growth capital for hundreds of companies which helped create thousands of jobs.

Dan held six Federal and State securities licenses, including the basic “Series 7” license. He also was one of very few people to additionally hold the more advanced Series 24 and Series 53 supervisor’s licenses. Even more unique, Dan can proudly say he passed each of these rigorous Federal licensing exams on the first try! As an individual who successfully passed continued vetting and background checks, he was the go-to guy who was regularly entrusted with overseeing sensitive multi-billion-dollar transactions.

Not one to sit still, Dan has been very active in his community. He spent a decade helping out with youth sports programs, including coaching eight seasons of little league baseball. As always, Dan gave that role his all and he can proudly say he never had a losing season! He was also very active in the local community youth football program where he participated in many ways, including a five-year run as the stadium play by play announcer.

A man of faith, Dan was also a church leader for many years, including a decade on his community church’s Church Council. When the Church badly needed the help of a seasoned financial professional, Dan took on the role of his Church’s Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer. During his seven years in that position, Dan implemented many financial controls and best practices.

He also served as the landlord representative on behalf of the Church for two income-producing apartment buildings that it owns. Once again, he immersed himself in this role and he improved the operations and profitability of these two investments. Most importantly, Dan laid out a path to bring the Church back to a balanced budget — something the politicians in Washington, DC could learn from these days!

Dan’s contribution to his Church went beyond finance and management. He was also one of the leaders of a group that fought to remove his Church from a national church organization that had gone totally woke. It was a contentious multi-year process, but Dan’s Church ultimately prevailed. Dan and his fellow Church leaders stood up to woke, and they won!
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Dan has been married for close to 40 years to his college sweetheart, Vicky Franzese. Together they raised two great children who are both successful in their own right. Dan and Vicky were entrepreneurs in the early years of the Internet era and they started up a successful online travel guide that they subsequently sold to a major media company. They have made other successful venture capital investments as well.

Dan was the Republican nominee for Florida's 22nd Congressional District in 2024 after winning a competitive three way primary with 53% of the vote, more than two times the closest competitor. Dan had the honor of being endorsed in 2024 by President Trump, who said “As a very successful businessman, Dan knows how to Fight Inflation, Grow the Economy, Lower Taxes, and Eliminate Government Waste…..HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”

In the 2024 general election, Dan won 45% of the vote in this deep-blue district, and he is credited with running the most competitive challenge ever against the well-established seven-term incumbent, Lois Frankel (D). Importantly, unlike other down-ticket candidates in other districts who ran well behind President Trump, Dan’s performance was consistent with President Trump and Senator Rick Scott’s performance with those same voters. This is why party leaders say Dan has proven he is a good campaigner who will win this district in 2026 with the better district lines we will have this year.

Dan is a problem solver and a consensus-builder. He is as comfortable in the board room as he is in the break room. He has a decades-long track record of success as a leader in a diverse range of real-world experiences. All of these things and more make Dan Franzese uniquely qualified to be one of the next leaders of our great country.

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