Background
Molinari was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Elizabeth Margaret (Majoros) and S. Robert Molinari (1897–1957), a politician who represented the 2nd District of Richmond County in the New York State Assembly from 1943 to 1944.
United States representative politician
Molinari was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Elizabeth Margaret (Majoros) and S. Robert Molinari (1897–1957), a politician who represented the 2nd District of Richmond County in the New York State Assembly from 1943 to 1944.
He attended private schools growing up and graduated from New Dorp High School in Staten Island in 1945.
He was admitted to the New York State Bar following his discharge from the military in 1953 and commenced practice in Staten Island. He was a delegate to the New York State Republican conventions in 1979 and the Republican National Convention in both 1980 and 1984. In 1980, he was elected to the House of Representatives, unseating nine-term Democrat John M. Murphy.
He was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses with minimal opposition and served from January 3, 1981, until his resignation December 31, 1989, to become Borough President of Staten Island.
He served as Borough President from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2001. In 1994, a week before the statewide elections, Molinari announced that Karen Burstein, the Democratic nominee for New York Attorney General was not qualified to serve as attorney general because she was a lesbian.
The New York Times called his remarks, "gutter politics". Guy Molinari"s daughter Susan succeeded him as a member of Congress.
He was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1980, sitting in the 181st, 182nd and 183rd New York State Legislatures.