Brian Bergen is an American Republican politician currently serving in the New Jersey General Assembly's 25th district. He is from Denville, New Jersey, where he was a township councilor. Bergen was a member of the cross country running team at James Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, New Jersey, which led to interest to join the team at the United States Military Academy. After attending West Point, Bergen served from 1997 to 2008 in the United States Army as a Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot and earned graduate degrees from the University of Phoenix and Rutgers University.