Gary Grossi

Gary Grossi, a Republican from Acton, is a nurse and retired U.S. Army colonel running for Massachusetts's 3rd District.[1][2][3] According to his campaign website, he grew up in a Cambridge public housing project, served 29 years in the Army and Army Reserve including a deployment to Iraq, and worked as a nurse at VA medical centers.[2] The website lists affordability, public safety, government transparency and term limits among his priorities.[2]

Grossi was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Corcoran Park housing project, and graduated from Cambridge High and Latin in 1977, according to his campaign website.[1][2] Before nursing school he managed restaurants in Harvard Square and worked in mental health at Metropolitan State Hospital, and he went on to earn a bachelor's degree in nursing from UMass Boston.[1][2]

Grossi served 29 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, according to his campaign website, including as clinical team leader at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, mobilization officer with combat support hospital units, and, from 2007 to 2019, Deputy Commander for Nursing Services (colonel) of the 399th Combat Support Hospital.[2] He deployed to Mosul and Al Asad, Iraq, in 2006 and 2007.[2] As a civilian he worked as a psychiatric nurse at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center (1995-2000) and in outpatient substance-abuse and psychiatry at the Bedford VA Hospital (2000-2022), and he also did community-based substance-abuse and psychiatric care at Choate Hospital in Woburn.[1][2] The Eagle-Tribune reported in March 2026 that he works for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.[3]

Grossi received write-in votes in the 2024 Republican primary for the Massachusetts House of Representatives 37th Middlesex District, in which no candidate advanced.[1] He launched his campaign for Congress in March 2026.[3] He lists himself as vice chair of the Acton Republican Town Committee and a board member of Iron Works Farm, and says he is married with two children, according to his campaign website.[2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.