Politics / Maxwell Frost Congress Gets Its First Gen Z Member 25-year-old Maxwell Frost cruised to victory in Florida By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted Nov 8, 2022 8:54 PM CST Copied Maxwell Frost, right, Democratic candidate for Florida's 10th Congressional District, celebrates with supporters during a party at the Abbey in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP) In Congress, Maxwell Frost is going to be the voice of his generation. The 25-year-old Democrat cruised to victory over 51-year-old Republican Calvin Wimbish in Florida's reliably blue Orlando-area 10th District and will be the first member of Generation Z in Congress, BuzzFeed reports. Frost, who will also be the first Afro-Cuban in Congress, is just old enough to serve in the House of Representatives and just young enough to count as a member of Gen Z, defined as people born between 1997 and 2012. In other firsts: Maryland has elected its first Black governor, the New York Times reports. Wes Moore, a Democrat, will replace retiring Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Maura Healey, Massachusetts' attorney general, will be the country's first openly lesbian governor, the AP reports. The Democrat defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Geoff Diehl and will replace Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who decided not to run for a third term. In Arkansas, Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the state's first female governor. The former White House press secretary is also the first daughter in US history to be elected governor of a state her father formerly led, CNN reports. (More Maxwell Frost stories.) Report an error