Max Rose (1987-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 11) from 3 January 2019 to 3 January 2021, succeeding Dan Donovan and preceding Nicole Malliotakis.
Biography[]
Max Rose was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1987, and he served as an infantry company commander in the US National Guard. In 2018, he ran for the US House of Representatives as a Democrat, defeating Republican incumbent Dan Donovan to win the 11th district, which included all of Staten Island and southern Brooklyn. He affiliated himself with the conservative Blue Dog Coalition and the centrist New Democrats in the US Congress, and, during his 2020 re-election campaign, he employed conservative rhetoric to fight against his Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis. Rose employed progressive rhetoric by attacking Malliotakis as a "fraud" for cutting financial aid to New York City families during the COVID-19 pandemic and being an ally of the pharmaceutical industry, but he used conservative rhetoric when he stated his opposition to defunding the police amid the George Floyd protests and by claiming that he stood by President Donald Trump when he ordered the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. However, he went on to lose his seat amid a red wave in 2020.