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by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Haridopolos" title="Mike Haridopolos">Mike Haridopolos</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andy_Gardiner" title="Andy Gardiner">Andy Gardiner</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Florida_Senate" title="Florida Senate">Florida Senate</a></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />November 19, 2024</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Doug_Broxson" title="Doug Broxson">Doug Broxson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Florida%27s_1st_Senate_district" title="Florida's 1st Senate district">1st district</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />November 7, 2006 – November 8, 2016</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Charlie Clary</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Redistricted</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Florida%27s_4th_Senate_district" title="Florida's 4th Senate district">4th district</a> (2006–2012)<br /><a href="/wiki/Florida%27s_1st_Senate_district" title="Florida's 1st Senate district">1st district</a> (2012–2016)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Donald Jay Gaetz</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1948-01-22</span>) </span>January 22, 1948<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 77)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Rugby,_North_Dakota" title="Rugby, North Dakota">Rugby, North Dakota</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Margaret Kruger (m. 1974, div. 1980)<br />Victoria Quertermous (m. 1981)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2, including <a href="/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Gaetz" title="Jerry Gaetz">Jerry Gaetz</a> (father)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Concordia_College_(Moorhead,_Minnesota)" title="Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)">Concordia College</a> <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">(BA)</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Troy_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Troy State University">Troy State University</a> <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Public_Administration" title="Master of Public Administration">(MPA)</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Donald Jay Gaetz</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">GAYTS</span></i></a>; born January 22, 1948) is an American businessman and <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> politician who has been a member of the <a href="/wiki/Florida_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida State Senate">Florida State Senate</a> since 2024, representing parts of <a href="/wiki/Florida_Panhandle" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Panhandle">Northwest Florida</a>. He previously served from 2006 to 2016 and was <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Florida_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the Florida Senate">Senate president</a> from 2012 to 2014. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gaetz was born in <a href="/wiki/Rugby,_North_Dakota" title="Rugby, North Dakota">Rugby, North Dakota</a>, the son of Olive (Knutson) and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Gaetz" title="Jerry Gaetz">Jerry Gaetz</a>, a former mayor of the city and a state legislator.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jerry Gaetz was a candidate for <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_North_Dakota" title="Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota">Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota</a> at the 1964 <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_Republican_Party" title="North Dakota Republican Party">North Dakota Republican Party</a> state convention, where he died of a heart attack while his son watched television coverage of the event.<sup id="cite_ref-rising_fast_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rising_fast-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gaetz attended the <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in America">Evangelical Lutheran-affiliated</a> <a href="/wiki/Concordia_College_(Moorhead,_Minnesota)" title="Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)">Concordia College</a>, graduating with his bachelor's degree in religion and political science, and then <a href="/wiki/Troy_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Troy State University">Troy State University</a>, receiving his <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Public_Administration" title="Master of Public Administration">Master of Public Administration</a> in education before moving to the state of Florida in 1978. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shortly after receiving his master's degree, Gaetz worked in <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a> as a hospital administrator, and lobbied the legislature to create hospice care programs for the dying. In 1983, Gaetz founded <a href="/wiki/VITAS_Healthcare" title="VITAS Healthcare">VITAS Healthcare</a> Corporation with a group of investors, which he later sold for nearly half a billion dollars in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-rising_fast_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rising_fast-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Okaloosa_County_School_Board">Okaloosa County School Board</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Okaloosa County School Board"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1994, Gaetz ran for the Okaloosa County School Board, receiving the Republican nomination and then challenging incumbent school board member Jean Long, the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> nominee, and Susan Matuska, the <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> nominee, in the general election. He ended up winning, receiving 69% of the vote to Long's 20% and Matuska's 11%.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his first term, Gaetz campaigned for a one-cent sales tax to fund school construction and renovation, which was easily approved by the county's voters in a 1995 special election.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1997, he called for an investigation into the conduct of a vice-principal at <a href="/wiki/Niceville_High_School" title="Niceville High School">Niceville High School</a>, where his son went to school, after reports surfaced of the vice-principal promoting his religious beliefs while working at the school. Following his call for an investigation, which he said was warranted by the vice-principal's attempts "to make people who didn't share his views feel as though they were somehow second-class Christians or that they were in danger of damnation," he said, "I have received death threats from individuals who mistakenly believe the way to advance their own particular brand of Christianity is to threaten the life of someone who is a Christian not of their particular kind."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When he ran for re-election in 1998, Gaetz was opposed by only Republican candidate James Campbell, whom he defeated in an open primary with 67% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gaetz opted to run for Okaloosa County superintendent of schools in 2000, and faced David Morgan, the principal of <a href="/wiki/Niceville_High_School" title="Niceville High School">Niceville High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the Republican primary. He defeated Morgan handily, winning 68% of the vote and advancing to the general election, where he was opposed by William Lynch, the Democratic nominee, and John Hughes, an <a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">independent</a> candidate. Neither Lynch nor Hughes posed a significant challenge to Gaetz, and he won his first term with 75% of the vote to Lynch's 18% and Hughes' 7%.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was unopposed for re-election in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-first_time_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first_time-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time as superintendent, the <a href="/wiki/Okaloosa_County_School_District" title="Okaloosa County School District">Okaloosa County School District</a> increased from twenty-seventh in the state in student performance to first.<sup id="cite_ref-red_tape_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-red_tape-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Florida_Senate">Florida Senate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Florida Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When incumbent <a href="/wiki/Florida_Senate" title="Florida Senate">state senator</a> Charlie Clary was unable to seek re-election in 2006 due to term limits, Gaetz ran to succeed him in the 4th District, which stretched from <a href="/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida" title="Pensacola, Florida">Pensacola</a> to <a href="/wiki/Panama_City,_Florida" title="Panama City, Florida">Panama City</a>, including parts of southern <a href="/wiki/Bay_County,_Florida" title="Bay County, Florida">Bay County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Escambia_County,_Florida" title="Escambia County, Florida">Escambia County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Okaloosa_County,_Florida" title="Okaloosa County, Florida">Okaloosa County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa_County,_Florida" title="Santa Rosa County, Florida">Santa Rosa County</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Walton_County,_Florida" title="Walton County, Florida">Walton County</a>. He was initially set to face <a href="/wiki/Florida_House_of_Representatives" title="Florida House of Representatives">state representative</a> <a href="/wiki/Holly_Benson" title="Holly Benson">Holly Benson</a> in the Republican primary,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Benson ultimately declined to run, and Gaetz won the nomination, and then the general election, unopposed. </p><p>During his first term in the Senate, Gaetz served as Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and attracted headlines when he attacked a <a href="/wiki/Florida_Department_of_Education" title="Florida Department of Education">Florida Department of Education</a> official over a teacher bonus initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-red_tape_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-red_tape-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gaetz sponsored legislation that would have expanded <a href="/wiki/Florida_Comprehensive_Assessment_Test" title="Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test">Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test</a> material to include social studies, broadened the group of people determining state standards, granted honors diplomas to high-achieving test takers, and taught world languages in elementary schools.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was re-elected without opposition in 2010. </p><p>In 2012, following the reconfiguration of the state's legislative districts, Gaetz was drawn into the 1st District, which included much of the territory that he had previously represented but dropped the extension into Pensacola for an inclusion of <a href="/wiki/Holmes_County,_Florida" title="Holmes County, Florida">Holmes County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jackson_County,_Florida" title="Jackson County, Florida">Jackson County</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Florida" title="Washington County, Florida">Washington County</a>. He won the Republican nomination uncontested; in the general election he faced independent candidate Richard Harrison. Gaetz campaigned on his grassroots efforts to introduce himself to potentially new constituents in the district and attacked his opponent for his "misunderstanding of the legislative process."<sup id="cite_ref-first_time_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first_time-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately, Gaetz was re-elected after winning 74% of the vote to Harrison's 26%.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg/220px-House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg/330px-House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg/440px-House_from_The_Truman_Show_film.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3120" data-file-height="4160" /></a><figcaption>This house served as Truman's home in the 1998 film, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Truman_Show" title="The Truman Show">The Truman Show</a></i>. The house is owned by the Gaetz family.</figcaption></figure> <p>Gaetz served as the president of the Florida Senate from 2012–2014.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interim">Interim</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Interim"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was appointed by the Senate to the Constitution Revision Commission and by the House of Representatives as a member and current chairman of Triumph Gulf Coast, a $1.5 billion economic development and recovery fund for coastal Northwest Florida. He was also appointed by the president of the Senate to serve on the Florida Commission on Ethics until 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Senate_tenure">Second Senate tenure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Second Senate tenure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2023, Gaetz announced that he would run again in his old seat in the <a href="/wiki/2024_Florida_Senate_election" title="2024 Florida Senate election">2024 Florida Senate election</a> to succeed term-limited Republican incumbent <a href="/wiki/Doug_Broxson" title="Doug Broxson">Doug Broxson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gaetz proceeded to win the election in November 2024 with 64.6% of the vote, defeating Democrat Lisa Newell.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stephen_Alford">Stephen Alford</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Stephen Alford"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Florida businessman Stephen Alford pleaded guilty in a $25 million extortion plot targeting Don Gaetz in a convoluted scheme to secure a presidential pardon for Gaetz's son, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt</a>, who came under investigation regarding allegations of sex trafficking. Alford later told investigators that he lied to the Gaetzes about the pardon. </p><p>On August 22, 2022, U.S. district judge Casey Rodgers sentenced Alford (aged 62) to 63 months plus three years supervised release after he pleaded guilty in 2021 to one count of wire fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fraud_lawsuit">Fraud lawsuit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Fraud lawsuit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/VITAS_Healthcare#Department_of_Justice_lawsuit" title="VITAS Healthcare">VITAS Healthcare § Department of Justice lawsuit</a></div> <p>In 2013, the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice">U.S. Department of Justice</a> filed a lawsuit against VITAS for allegedly committing <a href="/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)" title="Medicare (United States)">Medicare</a> fraud since 2002, when Gaetz still worked at the company. Gaetz denied any role in any wrongdoing that occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The case was settled in January 2018 with a confidential settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gaetz and his wife, Victoria (née Quertermous) reside in <a href="/wiki/Seaside,_Florida" title="Seaside, Florida">Seaside, Florida</a>, in a house that was used in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Truman_Show" title="The Truman Show">The Truman Show</a></i>; a sign on their white picket fence says "the Truman house".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gaetz has two children; his son, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt Gaetz</a>, served as a member of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>, and his daughter, Erin, was director of digital content for <a href="/wiki/Jeb_Bush_2016_presidential_campaign" title="Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign">Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Gaetz&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLLC1984" class="citation book cs1">LLC, Marquis Who's Who (Jun 2, 1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VwvScLjCam4C&q=%22GAETZ,+DONALD+JAY%22"><i>Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1984-1985</i></a>. 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