2. George W. Romney - Wikipedia

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    George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973.

    He was the father of former Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current United States Senator from Utah Mitt Romney, husband of 1970 U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney, and grandfather of current Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.

    He was the father of former Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current United States Senator from Utah Mitt Romney, husband of 1970 U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney, and grandfather of current Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.

    Romney was born to American parents living in the Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to flee back to the United States when he was a child. 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. In 1939 he moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, where he served as the chief spokesman for the automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative arrangement in which companies could share production improvements. 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. Devoutly religious, he presided over the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    Having entered politics by participating in a state constitutional convention to rewrite the Michigan Constitutionduring 1961–1962, Romney was elected Governor of Michigan in 1962. Re-elected by i…

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    George W. Romney was a Republican Party politician who became the 43rd Governor of Michigan. He was also a successful businessman. Beginning his life in a Mormon colony in Mexico, he moved with his family to the USA at age of five, displaced by the ongoing Mexican Revolution.

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    Charitable CEO who helped establish American Motor Company George Romney brought a sense of integrity and devotion to the automotive industry. He was born in 1907 in a Mormon colony in Mexico, but his family was forced to flee to the United …

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    • George Wilcken Romney was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua to Gaskell Romney and his wife (m. Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, February 20, 1895) Anna Amelia Pratt.Romney's grandparents fled the United States because of the persecution by the Federal government. Anna's father Helaman Pratt was the son of Parley P. Pratt. Anna's mother was Anna Johanna Dorothy (\"Dora\") Wilcken whose father had first come to Utah as part of Johnston…
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  6. George Romney - A Leader in Business, Service and Civil Rights

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    George W. Romney 8 July 1907 — 26 July 1995 D evout, principled, that classic Jeffersonian citizen, a problem solver, a shirtsleeve worker, a liberal in his treatment of his fellow humans, a conservative with other people's money, a leader, not a manipulator.

  7. George Romney Dies at 88; A Leading G.O.P. Figure - The ...

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    Jul 27, 1995 · George W. Romney, an automobile executive who became a three-term Governor of Michigan, a Republican Presidential candidate and a member of …

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    May 18, 2019 · George W. Romney : biography July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995 For the fall 1964 elections, Romney cut himself off from the national ticket, refusing to even appear on the same stage with themWhite, The Making of the President, 1964, p. 351. and continuing to feud with Goldwater privately.

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    George W. Romney was an American businessperson and politician. He was Chairman and President of American Motors Corporation, from October 1954 to February 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan, from January 1, 1963 to January 22, 1969, and the 3rd United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, from January 22, 1969 to January 20, 1973.

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    • Opinion: Mitt Romney is no George Romney - Matthew Dallek ...

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      George Romney, it’s true, spent part of his adult life outside of politics. In the 1950s, he gained fame as an effective CEO, who improved the fortunes …

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