First Gen Z representative elected to U.S. Congress

Community organizer Maxwell Frost won his Florida race for Congress on Tuesday. This historic win makes the 25-year-old Frost the first member of Generation Z (people born between 1997-2012, roughly) to join the United States Congress.

“Central Florida my name is Maxwell Alejandro Frost and I’m going to be the first Generation Z member of the United States Congress!” Frost announced to his supporters in Orlando on Tuesday night. Frost won against the Republican candidate Calvin Wimbish, a retired 72-year-old Army Green Beret. Frost will take the Orlando-based 10th Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Val Demings.

✅ Hydro Flask
✅ Glasses cause I barely slept and my eyes were too dry for contacts
✅ Brekkie Sandwich
✅ Won my election last night

It’s a good morning. pic.twitter.com/xAf7YUcrAf

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) November 9, 2022

Maxwell Frost’s campaign

Frost, a Democrat, worked as the national organizing director for March for Our Lives, an anti-gun violence group that was founded after the 2018 Parkland massacre where then-19-year-old Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people and injured 17 others. He has made gun violence a focal point of his campaign.

Gun violence is an everyday occurrence, the Supreme Court has stripped away abortion rights, & affordable housing is in a crisis. We need bold leaders who will fight for transformational change. A leader who will fight for Orlando. pic.twitter.com/Mkc0JnFxsb

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) July 28, 2022

Frost’s campaign was endorsed by prevention groups like Brady:United Against Gun Violence and Giffords, as well as gun control activist Fred Guttenberg, one of the most high-profile parent activists to emerge from the Parkland massacre; in which his 14-year-old daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed.

Frost will definitely stand out amongst his soon-to-be-peers in Congress – the average age of House of Representatives members is 58.

Members of the House must be at least 25. The minimum age to serve in the U.S. Senate is 30 and a president must be at least 35.