Kevin McCarthy was born in Bakersfield, California, the son of Roberta (née Palladino), a homemaker, and Owen McCarthy, an assistant city fire chief McCarthy is a fourth-generation resident of Kern County. He is the first Republican in his immediate family, as his parents were members of the Democratic Party. At the age of 19, he opened his first business, a delicatessen, after winning five thousand dollars with a lottery ticket.
He says he is a Southern Baptist.
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