Early Life
McGuinty was born in Ottawa, Ontario. His parents are politician and professor Dalton McGuinty, Sr. and full-time nurse Elizabeth McGuinty (née Pexton). Being the son of a Francophone mother and an Anglophone father, McGuinty is bilingual. McGuinty is the second Roman Catholic to hold the premiership. He grew up in an Irish Canadian family with nine brothers and sisters, with younger brother David representing the riding of Ottawa South in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.
An alumnus of St. Patrick's High School in Ottawa, he studied biology and earned a B.Sc. from McMaster University. He then took his LL.B from the University of Ottawa before practising law in Ottawa.
Since 1980, he has been married to high school sweetheart Terri McGuinty, an elementary school teacher. The couple have one daughter and three sons.
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