Austen Givens

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 is a former member of the New York Libertarian Party as well as the national Libertarian Party.

In 2015, Givens penned an op-ed sharply criticizing Republican governors for opposing the entry of refugees into the United States.

He began his political career as an intern in the Capitol Hill offices of 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.

While a graduate student, he authored an April 2008 column in The Richmond Times-Dispatch in which he advocated for economic sanctions against Iran to be linked to Tehran’s international support of terrorist organizations.

He was Temporary County Chair for the Oneida County Libertarian Party from February 11—March 4, 2018.