Born in Amesbury, Ma. in 1949. And graduated from Amesbury High School in 1967. Graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology with high honors, awarded an Associates Applied Science degree in building construction technology. He is married with four children, two step-children, and nine grandchildren. Currently living in Wendell, Id., and semi-retired. An entrepreneur of four businesses and a published author of several stories in Idaho Magazine.