Andrea Catsimatidis
Andrea Catsimatidis has been the chair of the Manhattan Republican Party since 2017. She is a New York native and socialite[1] and daughter of John Catsimatidis.[2]
She studied business at New York University and chaired the New York University College Republicans. She graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Business Management and double minors in Political Science and Communications. The New York Post's Jon Levine called her a "rising GOP star" in 2019.[3] She was elected chair of the Manhattan Republican party in 2017, a position she has held since then.[4][5] In January 2019, she appeared on CNN to discuss the government shutdown.[1] She is an executive of the Red Apple Group and is a Principal of Red Apple Real Estate, Vice President of First Federal Guarantee Insurance Company, and Managing Director of Gristedes Supermarkets.
In 2011, she married Christopher Nixon Cox, Richard Nixon's grandson.[6] They divorced in 2014.[3][7]
References
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- "Andrea Catsimatidis Re-Elected Chairwoman of the Manhattan GOP". The National Herald. March 11, 2020.
- York, Laura Pullman, New (2019-08-11). "Andrea Catsimatidis will drum up support in a bikini, Mr President, with a Maga hat to match". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- Buckley, Cara (2011-06-16). "Andrea Catsimatidis and Christopher Cox". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- Levine, Jon (2019-07-06). "How GOP crusader Andrea Catsimatidis is tackling the risky business of NY politics". New York Post. Retrieved 2020-03-11.