Mel Sembler had an overall net worth of over $20 million at the time of his death. Mel Sembler served as the United States Ambassador to Australia and Nauru from 1989 to 1993 and the United States Ambassador to Italy from 2001 to 2005.
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Mel Sembler was also the chairman of the board of the Sembler Company, which develops and manages shopping centers. Additionally, he co-founded Straight, Inc., a controversial drug treatment center.

Mel Sembler served as finance chairman for the Republican National Committee from 1997 to 2000, as Florida’s National Committeeman to the Republican National Committee from 1994 to 2000, as honorary chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and as chairman of the Drug-Free America Foundation.
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Mel Sembler is a resident member of the Florida Council of 100, a business advisory council to the governor of Florida. Sembler was married to Betty Schlesinger from 1953 until she died in 2022. They had three children together.
Mel Sembler served as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Team 100 and finance co-chairman of the American Bicentennial Presidential Inaugural, and from 1993 to 1995 he was finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.


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