Madison Cawthorn

Madison Cawthorn

David Madison Cawthorn is the U.S. Representative-elect for North Carolina’s 11th congressional district after winning the 2020 election. He will be the youngest member of Congress since Jed Johnson Jr. and the first born in the 1990s. In 2014, at age 18, he was injured while returning from a spring break trip in Florida.

About Madison Cawthorn in brief

Summary Madison CawthornDavid Madison Cawthorn was born on August 1, 1995, in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the U.S. Representative-elect for North Carolina’s 11th congressional district after winning the 2020 election. He will be the youngest member of Congress since Jed Johnson Jr. and the first born in the 1990s. In 2014, at age 18, he was injured while returning from a spring break trip in Florida. He was a passenger in an SUV on Interstate 4 near Daytona Beach when his friend fell asleep at the wheel and the SUV crashed into a concrete barrier. He accrued USD 3 million in medical debt during his recovery. In 2017, he posted an Instagram picture of his visit to Adolf Hitler’s vacation residence Eagle’s Nest. In the post, he called Hitler Führer, a German term of reverence meaning “leader” and the site “supreme evil” The Anti-Defamation League does not include SPQR in its hate symbol database.

Some residents of his congressional district expressed concern about the incident, including Esther Manheimer, the Jewish mayor of Asheville. On August 13, 2020, Katrina Krulikas published an Instagram post alleging sexual assault against Caw thorn. CawThorn admitted to having tried to kiss Krulkas on August 10, 2014, when she was 17, when he was 17. He has denied being a white supremacist, calling that ridiculous, and said he did not denounce any kind of white nationalism or Nazism. He dropped out of Patrick Henry College during the fall 2016 semester to study political science, but dropped out after earning mostly D grades.