Max Rose

He serves as a company commander in the New York Army National Guard with the 69th Infantry Battalion, the second-oldest unit in the United States.

Max N. Rose (born November 28, 1986) is an American military officer and politician who served as a United States Representative from New York for a single term from 2019 to 2021.

A moderate Democrat, he served on the committees for Homeland Security and Veteran's Affairs and played a key role in bringing a stalled bill for a fund for victims of the September 11 attacks to a vote in the United States House of Representatives.

Rose served in the Biden administration as senior advisor to the United States Secretary of Defense for COVID-19 from January 2021 to July 2021.

For most of the time since the 1990s, it has been the only Republican-held district in the city, and for much of that time it has been the only area in the city in which Republicans usually do well.

It has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+3; the other 11 districts in the city have PVIs of at least D+20.

He captained its wrestling team and graduated in 2004.

He subsequently received a bachelor's degree in history from Wesleyan University, graduating in 2008.

Rose became involved in politics while a student at Wesleyan University; he worked as an intern for U.S. Senator Cory Booker while Booker was mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

He later earned a master's degree in philosophy and public policy from the London School of Economics, studying there in 2008 and 2009.

He also attended the University of Oxford.

Rose commissioned in the United States Army in 2010.

He served nearly five years of active duty with the U.S. Army 1st Armored Division.

The 11th has historically been the most conservative district in New York City, as Staten Island is the city's most conservative borough.

From 2012 to 2013, Rose served in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader in combat in the War in Afghanistan.

Wounded while on duty, he was awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

In 2012 and 2013, he was a first lieutenant platoon leader during the War in Afghanistan, where he led a combat outpost of 30 American soldiers and suffered wounds to his face and right knee in 2013 after his Stryker armored fighting vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northern Kandahar Province.

During his service, he earned the Ranger tab (in Fort Benning), as well as on deployment in Afghanistan the Combat Infantryman Badge, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Rose defeated Donovan, 52.8% to 46.8%, a win widely seen as an upset as most ratings of the race considered Donovan, who had won the 2016 election by 25 points, a slight favorite.

He became the youngest male member of the House of Representatives.

In 2018, Rose defeated incumbent Republican Dan Donovan to win election to New York's 11th congressional district.

The district includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn.

Rose ran in the 2018 Democratic Party primary for New York's 11th congressional district against five other candidates, winning with 65% of the vote.

In the general election, he faced Republican incumbent Dan Donovan and received endorsements from former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden.

In the 2020 election, Rose lost to the Republican nominee, state assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.

After losing reelection to Congress, Rose briefly considered running for Mayor of New York City in the 2021 election, but ultimately did not enter the race.

On January 20, 2021, he was sworn in as special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense for COVID-19, serving in the role for six months.

In December 2021, Rose announced his candidacy in the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives elections to regain his former seat; in a rematch of the 2020 race, he was defeated by Malliotakis, earning 37.5% of the vote.

Rose was born in Brooklyn, New York.

He is Jewish.

His mother is a public school teacher and professor of social work and his father is a medical laboratory executive.

Rose grew up primarily in Park Slope, and attended elementary school there.

He celebrated his bar mitzvah at Union Temple of Brooklyn in Prospect Heights.

Rose attended high school at Poly Prep Country Day School in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn.

In March 2020, while serving as a member of Congress, Rose deployed with the National Guard to assist New York City's coronavirus pandemic response effort.

He and his unit spent two weeks turning a Staten Island psychiatric center into an emergency hospital for patients with COVID-19.

After leaving full-time military service, Rose served as director of public engagement for Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson.

Thompson was Brooklyn's first Black district attorney.

Rose worked on an initiative known as "Begin Again," helping people with outstanding warrants for minor offenses address them and clean their records.

Later, he served as chief of staff at Brightpoint Health, a nonprofit operator of medical outpatient clinics in Staten Island and elsewhere in New York City with 800 employees.