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Maxwell Alejandro Frost (born January 17, 1997) [1] is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 10th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously the national organizing director for March for Our Lives.
Nov 10, 2022 · Frost may be young, but his resume doesn’t match his age. He got his start in politics when he was just 15, mostly advocating for gun reform and later working for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
Dec 6, 2022 · Representative-elect Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old Afro-Cuban progressive activist from Orlando, is about to be the youngest member of Congress.
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Frost was born Jan. 17, 1997, to a Puerto Rican woman and a Haitian man. According to his campaign page, his biological mother had seven children and battled a cycle of drugs, crime and violence. Adopted as an infant, his adoptive mother and his grandmother came to Florida from Cuba in the early 1960s during the Freedom Flights with only a suitcase...
Frost was active in Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. That same year he became a gun control activist after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conneticut. He is an American Civil Liberties Union activist and also served as the national organizing director for March for Our Lives, a group that advocates for gun control policy. In June, he confro...
Frost won his party's nomination for U.S. House in Florida's 10th Congressional District and defeated nine other Democrats, including state Sen. Randolph Bracy and former U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown and Alan Grayson. The seat became open when Democrat Val Demings decided to run for Senate against Republican Marco Rubio.
Frost campaigned on progressive issues including Medicare for All, an end to gun violence, transforming the criminal justice system and an end to the climate crisis. He also supports progressive policies including work onthe Green New Deal. A professed LGBTQ ally, Frost has attended Pride Parades including one last month in Orlando. Heraised more t...
As of Wednesday morning, Frost received more than 59% of the votes with 99% of all ballots counted in Florida District 10. According to results, Frost garnered 117,745 votes, while Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wimbush secured just over 39% of the votes (78,762 votes). Jason Holic (NF) secured 1,998 votes (1.0%) while Usha Jain (NF) tallied 1,10...
At age 25, Frost just qualifies for the age requirement to serve in the U.S. House. Twenty-five is the youngest age permissible by the Constitution. This year's midterms marked the first election in which Gen Z members could run for congressional office. The Pew Research Centerconsiders anyone born between 1997 and 2012 to be Gen Z. Natalie Neysa A...
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Adopted at birth by Patrick Frost, a Kansas-born musician-producer, and his wife Maritza Argibay-Frost, a special education teacher who immigrated to the US from Cuba as a child in the 1960s, Maxwell was joined by his sister, María Elizabeth, three years later.
Jan 9, 2023 · In a narrowly divided House, the twenty-five-year-old Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost seeks to fulfill a promise to his generation.
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Nov 9, 2022 · Frost, 25, beat Republican Calvin Wimbish, a retired 72-year-old Army Green Beret, to take the Orlando-based 10th Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Val Demings.
