Frank Guinta

Frank Christopher Guinta (born September 26, 1970) is an American businessman and politician who represented New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and 2015 to 2017.

Guinta, the son of Richard and Virginia Guinta, was born in Edison, New Jersey, in 1970.

He graduated from the Canterbury School, a Catholic boarding school in New Milford, Connecticut, and Assumption College, a four-year liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts (where he met his wife, Morgan).

After their marriage, the couple moved to Boston, where Guinta worked for Travelers Insurance and other entities in the insurance industry.

He also began his own insurance consulting firm.

He then attended Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire, where he earned a master's degree in intellectual property.

Guinta worked in the insurance industry before being elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, where he served from 2000 to 2004; he also served as a Manchester alderman from 2001 to 2005.

On November 7, 2000, Guinta was elected to a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Manchester.

In 2001, Guinta ran for the post of alderman from Manchester's Ward 3.

In the non-partisan municipal primary election held on September 1, 2001, Guinta and George Skilioganis were the two top vote-getters in Ward 3, with 375 and 279 votes, respectively, securing them a place on the November ballot.

On November 6, 2001, Guinta defeated Skilioganis by a vote of 630 to 522 in the general election.

Two years later, incumbent alderman Guinta and challenger Glenn R.J. Ouellette, a runner-up in the 2001 primary, faced no opposition in the primary.

He was re-elected on November 5, 2002.

In the November 3, 2003, general election, Guinta beat Ouellete 452 to 324.

While serving as alderman, Guinta was one of the few Republicans on the 14-member Board of Aldermen.

The mayor of Manchester during Guinta's tenure on the board, Robert A. Baines, also was a Democrat.

Guinta was taking on Mayor Baines, a three-term mayor who had won two-thirds of the vote in the 2003 general election, who was seeking a fourth term.

He resigned from the State House in 2004 to work as senior policy adviser to Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley.

In 2004, Guinta resigned his House seat to take a position as senior policy adviser to U.S. Congressman Jeb Bradley, who preceded Carol Shea-Porter as the U.S. representative for New Hampshire's first district.

In 2005, he ran for mayor of Manchester and defeated three-term Democratic incumbent Robert A. Baines.

Guinta held the post until March 2005, when he resigned to campaign for mayor of Manchester.

In the non-partisan primary held on September 5, 2005, Guinta placed second in a three-candidate field, garnering 3,760 votes to Baines' 5,168.

(Jeff Kassel received 651 votes.) On November 8, 2005, Guinta defeated Baines in the general election by 528 votes (10,125 to 9,597), becoming Manchester's youngest mayor in over 100 years.

He ran on a platform of improving education, increasing public safety and security, revitalizing Manchester's neighborhoods, promoting fiscal responsibility, and reducing property tax rates.

A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, from 2006 to 2010.

He is identified by National Journal as a moderate.

He was inaugurated on January 3, 2006.

During Guinta's first term as mayor, the city raised the complement of Manchester's police force by 22 officers to 225 and added a police substation on Manchester's west side.

Guinta also tackled violence at local nightclubs.

In 2006, at the urging of Guinta, neighbors, and other city officials concerned about violent crime, the state Liquor Commission refused to renew the liquor licenses for clubs Omega, Envy and Fish, resulting in their closure.

Guinta emphasized community policing and cooperation between law enforcement and the community.

With regards to taxes and spending, Guinta takes credit for Manchester's first tax cut in a decade.

He was re-elected in 2007 but did not run for a third term in 2009.

Guinta was elected to a second term as mayor on November 6, 2007, defeating Democrat Thomas Donovan, a former school board member.

Guinta received the backing of the New Hampshire Union Leader during his re-election bid.

Instead, he ran for Congress in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Carol Shea-Porter.

In a rematch in 2012, Shea-Porter defeated Guinta to reclaim the seat.

Guinta defeated Shea-Porter for a second time in 2014.

Shea-Porter defeated Guinta on November 8, 2016, to win back the seat.

He and Kelly Ayotte are the most recent Republicans to represent New Hampshire in Congress.