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His parents named him after a family friend, businessman J. Willard Marriott, and his father's cousin, Milton "Mitt" Romney, a former quarterback for the Chicago Bears. [18] Romney was called "Billy" until kindergarten, when he expressed a preference for "Mitt". [ 19 ]
The family in 2021. The Romney family is prominent in U.S. politics. [1] Its family members include George W. Romney (1907–1995), the 43rd Governor of Michigan (1963–1969), and his son, Mitt Romney (born 1947), who was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), the 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential nominee, and later a U.S. Senator for Utah (2019–2025).
Romney's parents, Gaskell Romney (1871–1955) and Anna Amelia Pratt (1876–1926), were United States citizens and natives of the Territory of Utah. [7] [8] [9] They married in 1895 in Mexico and lived in Colonia Dublán in Nuevo Casas Grandes in the state of Chihuahua (one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico), where George was born on July 8, 1907.
One of his sons, Gaskell Romney, was the father of George W. Romney and grandfather of Mitt Romney. [4] [5] Miles Park Romney moved to Utah with the body of the church while still a child. He became a builder like his father. After he married his first wife he was sent on a mission for the Church in England.
Harold Arundel Lafount (January 5, 1880 – October 21, 1952) was an American businessman who served on the Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934. He was the father of Lenore Romney; the father-in-law of businessman and politician George W. Romney; and the maternal grandfather of businessman and politician Mitt Romney.
Politifact, Oct. 10, 2019: "Says the sons of Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney and John Kerry are all on the boards of "energy companies doing business in Ukraine." Factcheck.org, Oct. 29, 2019, " Dubious ...
George S. Romney (1874–1935), president of the college now known as Brigham Young University-Idaho G. Ott Romney (1892–1973), American football player, coach and college athletics administrator George W. Romney (1907–1995), businessman, Governor of Michigan, U.S. presidential candidate, Secretary of Housing & Urban Development, Mitt ...
Senator Mitt Romney is “seriously” concerned Donald Trump will target him and his family if he is re-elected in November, his biographer has revealed.. The Republican became the first senator ...