Age: 72
Home: Owatonna
Occupation: Retired from IBM after 27 years as a computer salesman
Elected to Senate: 1990; serving his sixth term. Before that, he served on the Owatonna City Council and the Steele County Commission.
Notable: former Republican Senate Minority Leader best known for pushing slot machines at Canterbury Park and the elimination of traffic-control meters on freeway entrance ramps. In 2008, Day lost the Republican primary in Minnesota's 1st Congressional District to Brian Davis, a Mayo Clinic physician who was endorsed by the party. Davis lost to incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Walz.
Family: wife, Janet; four kids
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