Guy Molinari

Victor Gaetano " Guy " Molinari ( born November 23, 1928 in New York City ) is a retired American politician. Between 1981 and 1989 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Guy Molinari is the son of S. Robert Molinari, who was a deputy in the New York State Assembly also politically active. He attended private schools. In 1945, he graduated from New Dorp High School on Staten Iceland. Then he attended until 1949 the local Wagner College. After a subsequent study of law at New York Law School and his 1953 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the meantime, he served at the time of the Korean War from 1951 to 1953 as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1974 and 1980 he was like his father, a deputy in the State Assembly. 1979 and 1980 he took part in the regional party days of the Republicans for the state of New York; in the years 1980 and 1984 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions respective on which Ronald Reagan was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1980, Molinari was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John M. Murphy on January 3, 1981. After four elections he could remain until his resignation on 31 December 1989 in Congress. Since 1983, he represented the 14th district where his state; there then followed him his daughter Susan. His resignation came after he had assumed the office of the Borough President of Staten Iceland. He held this position from 1990 to 2001.