Max Rose

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Max N. Rose (born November 28, 1986) is an American politician, military veteran, and security consultant who represented New York's 11th congressional district as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rose graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School and earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2008, followed by graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Oxford University. Rose commissioned as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army in 2010, serving active duty until 2014 with deployment to Afghanistan as a platoon leader from 2012 to 2013, where he was wounded by an improvised explosive device in Kandahar; for his service, he received the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge, and Ranger Tab, and he continues to serve as a captain and company commander in the New York Army National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment. After leaving active duty, he worked as a staffer in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and as chief of staff for a nonprofit health organization before winning election to Congress in 2018 by a narrow margin, defeating incumbent Dan Donovan. He lost reelection in 2020 to Nicole Malliotakis and mounted an unsuccessful comeback bid in 2022. Post-Congress, Rose served as a senior advisor on COVID-19 to the Secretary of Defense in 2021 and now holds positions as vice chairman of The Soufan Group, a security consultancy, and chairman and CEO of Pontis Partners.

In brief

Max Rose led a platoon in Afghanistan, came home with a Purple Heart, and decided Staten Island needed a different kind of candidate. The 2018 race against an incumbent was an upset; the 2020 rematch was not.

A Pentagon tour on pandemic response followed. The story is military first: a soldier who borrowed a House term and then went back to the institutions that had trained him.