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Frank Guinta Bio
Frank Guinta is the
Republican
mayor of
Manchester, New Hampshire.
He defeated three-term incumbent
Robert A. Baines
(D)
in the
November 8,
2005
non-partisan election. He ran with an agenda of lowing
taxes, reducing the crime rate in Manchester, and
improving the performance of the city’s schools.
In Manchester, the mayor serves as
chair of the city’s board of school committee. The
position has a two-year term. He was inaugurated
Tuesday,
January 3,
2006,
at Manchester's
Palace Theatre.
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Guinta, the son of Richard and
Virginia Guinta, was born in
Edison, New Jersey
on
September 26,
1970,
where he attended public school until the age of 12,
when his family moved to
Skillman, New Jersey.
In his final two years of high school, he attended
Canterbury,
a Catholic boarding school in
New Milford, Connecticut.
He went on to attend
Assumption College,
a private, four-year liberal arts college in
Worcester, Massachusetts,
where he met his wife, Morgan in his senior year.
After they married, they moved to
Boston, Massachusetts,
where Guinta worked for
Travelers Insurance.
In the fall of 1999, he started
attending
Franklin Pierce Law Center
in
New Hampshire,
where he earned a Master’s Degree in Intellectual
Property.
Frank with Senator Bill Frist Frank campaigning at saggy’s
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Frank with Senator Bill Frist
On
November 7,
2000, just five
months after graduation, he was elected to a seat in the
New Hampshire House of Representatives,
representing Manchester. He was reelected
November 5,
2002.
On
November 6,
2001, Guinta was
elected
Alderman
representing Manchester’s Ward 3. He was reelected to that office on
November 4,
2003.
In 2004, he resigned his House seat to take a
position as senior policy advisor to
Congressman Jeb Bradley,
a job which he held until
March,
2005, when he
left to run for mayor of Manchester on a full-time basis.
Guinta has volunteered on several boards and commissions in Manchester,
including Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., Intown
Manchester, Inc., SEE Science Center, Hands Across the Merrimack, Inc.
and A Way To A Better Living, Inc. He also spends time managing rental
properties in Manchester and focusing on the interests of Manchester
citizens in determining the vision for this great city.
In
2001 Guinta and
his wife, Morgan were honored in the first year of The
New Hampshire Union Leader's
“40 Under Forty” program. They are the only husband and wife to be so
honored by the newspaper.
Guinta has two young children, Colby, 2, and Jack, 1, and a poodle named
Abbey. Frank is an avid skier, and enjoys skiing the state's North
Country slopes.
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