About Frank

Frank Guinta is the former Mayor of New Hampshire's largest city, Manchester. First elected in 2005, Frank has spent the past two terms working to deliver on his campaign promises by reducing violent crime and giving citizens the first tax cut in a decade.

Frank has a strong history of public service prior to becoming Mayor, serving two terms as an Alderman and having been elected twice as a State Representative from Manchester.

As an elected official, Frank has consistently fought to get violent criminals off the streets, reduce the tax burden on citizens and improve the business and family climates of New Hampshire.

Keeping his promise to increase police complement, Manchester has seen a 10% increase of officers on the streets and the implementation of the Compstat crime statistic program in the Manchester Police Department. Modeled after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s successful program, this multilayered approach to crime reduction showed immediate results. During his tenure, Manchester has seen a 15% drop in violent crime.

One of the greatest struggles for families and businesses alike is the tax burden. Frank has proposed three tax cuts, worked for zero based budgeting, cut capital spending and proposed fiscally sound consolidations. He believes in difficult economic times it is imperative that government reduces--not increases--the burden on residents.

Frank, and Manchester under his leadership, has been recognized for many accomplishments during his tenure including: implementation of a comprehensive Student Information System (SIS) to present real-time data on the more than 16,000 Manchester School District students; the Rimmon Heights Neighborhood Initiative, which is a public-private-nonprofit neighborhood revitalization program; The West Side Neighborhood Health Center which includes a Pregnancy Care Center, Child and Adolescent Clinic, and Primary and Mental Health Care; and the facility expansion of five colleges in Manchester.

Frank holds a Bachelors Degree from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts and a Masters Degree in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH.

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.

Frank and Morgan live in Manchester with their two children, Colby and Jack.