Willard Mitt Romney
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Mitt Romney served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party’s nominee for President in 2012. A Harvard-educated businessman, he co-founded Bain Capital and later helped salvage the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. He has represented Utah in the U.S. Senate since 2019.
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George W. Romney, who later became Michigan’s governor, and his wife Lenore had a son on March 12, 1947 in Detroit: Mitt Romney. He was named Willard Mitt after his father’s friend J. Willard Marriott and his father’s cousin, pro football player Milton Mitt Romney. Raised in a Mormon household, Romney attended Cranbrook Schools, a private prep school, where he was the lone Mormon student.
In 1994, Romney ran as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Ted Kennedy, losing with 41% to Kennedy’s 58% but with the smallest margin Kennedy had ever faced. He took a leave from business in 2002 to lead the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics, turning a $400 million deficit into a $100 million surplus. That same year, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 2003 to 2007. His signature achievement was signing a universal health insurance law. He sought the presidency in 2008, losing the nomination to John McCain, and again in 2012, winning the Republican nomination but losing the general election to Barack Obama. Since 2019, he has served as a U.S. Senator from Utah.
Romney married his high school sweetheart Ann Davies in 1969. They have five sons: Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig. He served as a Mormon missionary in France for two and a half years in the 1960s and speaks French. His father George Romney also was a prominent Mormon and served in President Richard Nixon’s cabinet. Romney has been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints his entire life.
Romney’s most lasting legacy may be the Massachusetts healthcare reform law, which served as a model for the Affordable Care Act. His rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics is taught as a case study at Harvard Business School. He received the Profile in Courage Award for his role. As a U.S. Senator, he has been a rare Republican willing to break party ranks, notably voting to convict President Donald Trump in both impeachment trials. He is most remembered as the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who challenged Barack Obama.
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I Pay All the Taxes That Are Legally Required and Not a Dollar More.
My Faith Is Grounded in the Conviction That a Consequence of Our Common Humanity Is Our Responsibility to One Another to Our Fellow Americans Foremost, but Also to Every Child of God. Some People Believe That Such a Confession of My Faith Will Sink My Candidacy. If They Are Right, so Be It. but I Think They Underestimate the American People. Americans Do Not Respect Believers of Convenience. Americans Tire of Those Who Would Jettison Their Beliefs, Even to Gain the World.
Donald Trump Says That He Is Very, Very Smart, but I’m Afraid When It Comes to Foreign Policy, He Is Very Very Not Smart. He Said He Saw Thousands of Muslims in New Jersey Celebrating 9/11. Wrong. He Saw No Such Thing. His Imagination Must Not Be Married to Real Power.
Corporations Are People, My Friend.
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Served as President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
Practices the Mormon faith as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
As governor of Massachusetts, he was in office when the state became the first to legalize same-sex marriage.
His turnaround of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, from a $400 million deficit to a $100 million surplus, became a case study at Harvard Business School.
Among his favorite films are Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Henry V.
Served as Governor of Massachusetts from January 2, 2003 to January 4, 2007.
His father George Romney ran for President in 1968 but lost the Republican nomination to Richard Nixon.
He lived in France for two and a half years as a missionary and speaks French.
With his wife Ann, he has five sons: Ben, Craig, Josh, Matt, and Tagg Romney.
He has been a friend of Benjamin Netanyahu since 1985, when both were recruited by Boston Consulting Group.
In an interview, he named Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard as his favorite novel.
His ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, and distant French roots. His father was born in Mexico to American parents. Through his maternal grandmother’s line, he is a ninth cousin of actor Zach Braff, both descending from Rebecca Nurse, a victim of the Salem witch trials.
He was the GOP presidential candidate in 2012.
He is the son of former Michigan Governor George Romney and Lenore Romney.
He was the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts in 1994.
He is the uncle of Ronna Romney McDaniel, former chair of the Republican National Committee.
He has siblings named Scott, Lynn, and Jane Romney.
He has served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Utah since January 3, 2019.
He is a cousin of animator Don Bluth.
A look-alike puppet of him appears in the French show Les Guignols de l’info.
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