Early Life
Ventura was born James George Janos, on July 15, 1951, in Minneapolis, the son of Bernice Martha (née Lenz) and George William Janos, both of whom were World War II veterans. Ventura has an older brother who served in Vietnam. Ventura has described himself as Slovak; his father's parents were from what is now Slovakia, and his mother was of German descent. Ventura was raised a Lutheran. He attended the now-closed Cooper Elementary School and graduated from Minneapolis' Roosevelt High School in 1969.
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