Gavin Wax
American political operative (born 1994)
Gavin Mario Wax (born December 1993) is an American political operative who has served as the chief of staff to Darren Beattie, the acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, since August 2025. Wax served as the chief of staff to Federal Communications Commission commissioner Nathan Simington from April to June 2025 and as president of the New York Young Republican Club from 2019 to 2025.
Early life and education (1993–2017)
Gavin Mario Wax was born in December 1993. He is of Jewish descent and his grandmother, Pina Frassineti, along with her mother and brother, evaded Nazis in World War II by posing as Italian nuns for two years. Frassineti's grandfather was killed at Auschwitz concentration camp; other relatives were killed at Dachau. Frassineti moved from Rome to New York City near the end of the war.
Career
Early political involvement (2017–2019)
By November 2016, Wax had served as editor-in-chief of Liberty Conservative, and by March 2017, Wax was a member of the Metropolitan Republican Club.
In October 2018, Wax attended an event hosted by Gavin McInnes, founder of the neo-fascist Proud Boys. Following an altercation at the event between the Proud Boys and left-wing protesters, Wax wrote an editorial for American Thinker suggesting the Proud Boys had unfairly been tarred as extremist, saying that McInnes "just runs a patriotic fraternal group who like America and beer... We are all Proud Boys now." He further decried "leftist terrorist" attacks on conservatives.
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