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'''Austen Givens''', a Republican, was Temporary County Chair for the [[Oneida County Libertarian Party]] from February 11—March 4, 2018.  
'''Austen Givens''', a Republican, was Temporary County Chair for the [[Oneida County Libertarian Party]] from February 11—March 4, 2018.  
==Political Views and History==
Givens was an undergraduate fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neoconservative-aligned research institution in Washington, DC, while he was a student at the University of Virginia. At UVA he published columns in the student-run publications ''The Virginia Advocate'' and ''The Cavalier Daily'' pressing for hawkish U.S. foreign policy positions. He was a public supporter of George W. Bush’s 2004 Presidential campaign and the U.S.-led war in Iraq. During the summer of 2003, he was an intern in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. In August 2003 he traveled to Israel for a series of seminars on counterterrorism conducted at Tel Aviv University.
After graduating from UVA, Givens served as an intern in the Capitol Hill offices of then-Representative John Boozman (R-AR) and the late Jo Ann Davis (R-VA). In December 2004 he left Capitol Hill to take an entry-level job in the international trade division of Wiley, Rein & Fielding LP, a law firm co-founded by Reagan White House Counsel Fred Fielding.
He published a letter to the editor of ''National Review'' in 2006 calling for Saddam Hussein to be tried in Iraq, rather than in an international tribunal, for crimes against the Iraqi people. While a graduate student, he penned an April 2008 column in ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch'' in which he advocated for U.S. nuclear sanctions against Iran to be linked to Tehran’s international support of terrorist organizations.


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Revision as of 18:12, 18 July 2019

Austen Givens
Temporary County Chair
Oneida County Libertarian Party
February 11, 2018—March 4, 2018
Predecessor: Charles Millar
Successor: Craig Miles
Personal Details
Party: Republican

Austen Givens, a Republican, was Temporary County Chair for the Oneida County Libertarian Party from February 11—March 4, 2018.

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