George W. Romney
George Wilcken Romney was an American businessman and politician. He was the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969 and 3rd United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. Romney was the father of Mitt Romney, the 70th Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current U.S. Senator from Utah. Romney’s grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States with their children owing to the federal government’s prosecution of polygamy.
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George Wilcken Romney was an American businessman and politician. He was the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969 and 3rd United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. Romney was the father of Mitt Romney, the 70th Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current U.S. Senator from Utah. Romney’s grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States with their children owing to the federal government’s prosecution of polygamy. His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt, who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt. In the 1920s, Romney’s uncle Rey L. Pratt played a major role in the preservation and expansion of the Mormon presence in Mexico and in its introduction to South America. George Romney was a noted portrait painter in Britain during the last quarter of the 18th century. The family lived in several states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled during the Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served as a Mormon missionary in the United Kingdom, and attended several colleges in the U. S. but did not graduate from any of them. He joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948, and became the chief executive of its successor, American Motors Corporation, in 1954. There he turned around the struggling firm by focusing all efforts on the compact Rambler car. Romney mocked the products of the \”Big Three\” automakers as \”gas-guzzling dinosaurs\” and became one of the first high-profile, media-savvy business executives.
He also served as regional representative of the Twelve within his church. He briefly represented moderate Republicans against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election. He requested the intervention of federal troops during the 1967 Detroit riot. Romney left the administration at the start of Nixon’s second term in 1973, and headed the National Center for Voluntary Action and its successor organizations from 1973 through 1991. He died on July 8, 2007, at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife, Ann Romney, and their three children, two of whom are still living in the same state as he did when he died in 2007, and his son, Mitt Romney Jr., who lives in Massachusetts. Romney is the grandfather of current Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel and former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He had three older brothers, two younger brothers, and a younger sister, including George Gaskell Romney, a successful carpenter, house builder and farmer who was a carpenter and farmer, who headed the Young Salazar Young headed. In 1910, the Mormon colonies were endangered by marauders, including José Salazar and José Pascual Orozco. The Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910 and George Romney headed the most prosperous family in the Occidental Occidental colony, which was situated in an agricultural valley below the Madre de Madre valley.
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