HAMILTON — Don Daiker resigned this week as chairman of the Butler County Democratic Party at the same time he resigned as chairman of the Butler County Board of Elections.

        Mr. Daiker has been party chairman for 3 1/2 years.

        “It's time for me to move on and for the Butler County Democratic Party to gain new leadership,” he said in a written statement. “I want my life to move in new directions.”

        Mr. Daiker, who has been an English professor at Miami University for 36 years, said he wants to devote his full energies to a national composition conference he will be directing in the fall of next year and to a new course called “Americans Abroad in Fiction and Film” that he will be teaching.

        He said he has applied to teach in Luxembourg next year and he will need time to study French and German if he receives that appointment.

        Steve Hightower will be acting chairman until a permanent party chairman is elected at a Dec. 28 meeting at the D. Russel Lee Career Center.

        Mr. Daiker said during his tenure as party chairman, he helped recruit strong candidates for public office.

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