Rudolph W. Giuliani was born on May 28, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York. An only child raised in a part of Brooklyn known as East Flatbush, Giuliani was part of a strict Roman Catholic, Italian, working-class family. Giuliani attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn and, upon graduation in 1961, went on to complete his undergraduate work in political science and philosophy at Manhattan College in the Bronx. He attended New York University Law School, from which he graduated with high honors in 1968.

Giuliani became a law clerk for the Honorable Lloyd F. McMahon, a United States District Court judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After being in the clerkship for two years, Giuliani was hired to work as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. His good work in this position led to his promotion...