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Donald Trump, born 1946, is the President-elect of the United States and a businessman who is scheduled to take office as the 45th President on January 20, 2017.

Trump was born and raised in New York City. He was given control of his father Fred Trump's real estate and construction firm in 1971 and later renamed it The Trump Organization, rising to public prominence shortly thereafter.

The 1970s was really the early important years that marked his illustrious career. Take a look these black and white photos capturing Donald Trump in this period.

Donald Trump's grandparents: Mary and Malcolm McLeod on the Isle Lewis in Scotland.

He might of had angelic looks, but young Donald was a difficult child in his early years at school. Pictured right at military academy in 1964.

Trump's mother: Mary Anne, pictured in the 1950s, emigrated from Scotland.

Trump and his father, Fred, in 1973 at Trump Village, Fred's last project, in Queens.

Trump with his father, Fred Trump looking over NYC,1973

Fred C. Trump with his son Donald visiting a tenant in one of their apartment buildings in Brooklyn in January 1973.

Donald Trump in New York City - 1976.

Donald J. Trump in the living room of his penthouse at 160 East 65th Street in 1976.

Donald Trump in 1976.

Trump opens the Grand Hyatt, 1976.

Donald Trump - 1976

Trump and his Cadillac with personalized license plates, NYC, 1976

Trump and City Hall Plaza project, 1977.

Trump begins construction on the Grand Hyatt, 1978

Donald Trump attends an event at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, Dec.11, 1979.

The up-and-coming property tycoon with his first wife, Czech-American model and socialite Ivana, and his parents Mary Anne and Fred at a black-tie even in 1989.

Looking the part with second wife Marla Maples at a New York Yankees baseball game in 1992.

Back to his roots: Pictured in 2008 outside the cottage in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, where his mother was brought up.