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Cawthorn was born on August 1, 1995,[8] in Asheville, North Carolina, to Priscilla and Roger Cawthorn.[9] He was home-schooled in Hendersonville, North Carolina, through 12th grade,[10][11][12] and played football with the Ashville Saints, a league that includes home-schooled high school students.[13][14][15] As a teenager, he worked at a Chick-fil-A restaurant.[16]
In 2014, at age 18, Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring-break trip to Florida. He was riding as a passenger in a BMW X3 SUV near Daytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford fell asleep at the wheel. The SUV crashed into a concrete barrier while Cawthorn's feet were on the dashboard.[17][18] In a 2017 speech, Cawthorn said that Ledford left him "to die in a fiery tomb"; Ledford publicly disputed this in 2021, saying that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreck once he escaped the vehicle.[13]
U.S. Representative Mark Meadows nominated Cawthorn to the United States Naval Academy in 2014, but his application was rejected before his 2014 car accident; Cawthorn had claimed during his congressional campaign in advertisements that the accident "derailed" his plans to attend the Academy.[16][6][20][7] But in a lawsuit deposition, Cawthorn admitted that he had been rejected before the accident.[13]
From January 2015 to August 2016, Cawthorn worked as a staff assistant in Representative Mark Meadows's district office.[25] He told the Asheville Citizen-Times he worked there "full-time", but it was a part-time role.[13]
During the fall 2016 semester, Cawthorn attended Patrick Henry College, studying political science, but earned mostly D grades and dropped out. He said his grades were low primarily because his injuries had interfered with his ability to learn.[16] Cawthorn said in a deposition, "You know, suffering from a brain injury after the accident definitely I think it slowed my brain down a little bit. Made me less intelligent. And the pain also made reading and studying very difficult."[23] He also said he withdrew due to "heartbreak" after his fiancée broke up with him.[7][24]
Cawthorn is the owner of SPQR Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment firm in Hendersonville. The firm was started in August 2019 and reported no income; Cawthorn is its sole employee.[16]
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In 2014, at age 18, Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring-break trip to Florida. He was riding as a passenger in a BMW X3 SUV near Daytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford fell asleep at the wheel. The SUV crashed into a concrete barrier while Cawthorn's feet were on the dashboard.[17][18] In a 2017 speech, Cawthorn said that Ledford left him "to die in a fiery tomb"; Ledford publicly disputed this in 2021, saying that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreck once he escaped the vehicle.[13]
U.S. Representative Mark Meadows nominated Cawthorn to the United States Naval Academy in 2014, but his application was rejected before his 2014 car accident; Cawthorn had claimed during his congressional campaign in advertisements that the accident "derailed" his plans to attend the Academy.[16][6][20][7] But in a lawsuit deposition, Cawthorn admitted that he had been rejected before the accident.[13]
From January 2015 to August 2016, Cawthorn worked as a staff assistant in Representative Mark Meadows's district office.[25] He told the Asheville Citizen-Times he worked there "full-time", but it was a part-time role.[13]
During the fall 2016 semester, Cawthorn attended Patrick Henry College, studying political science, but earned mostly D grades and dropped out. He said his grades were low primarily because his injuries had interfered with his ability to learn.[16] Cawthorn said in a deposition, "You know, suffering from a brain injury after the accident definitely I think it slowed my brain down a little bit. Made me less intelligent. And the pain also made reading and studying very difficult."[23] He also said he withdrew due to "heartbreak" after his fiancée broke up with him.[7][24]
Cawthorn is the owner of SPQR Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment firm in Hendersonville. The firm was started in August 2019 and reported no income; Cawthorn is its sole employee.[16]
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