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Sep 19, 2012 · Mitt Romney's mother, Lenore, once cited her husband's childhood on welfare as a reason Michigan voters should trust the car company executive to be their governor. It's worth taking a look at now ...
Feb 24, 2012 · But a look at the lesser-known Romney, Lenore, suggests that in style, temperament and outlook, Mitt Romney is very much his mother’s son. A faithful Mormon and stay-at-home mother who ...
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- Sheryl Gay Stolberg
But the highest profile political work at the time has now been almost wholly forgotten: the 1970 senatorial campaign in Michigan for Republican Lenore Romney. Romney had almost no political experience, but she was the well-loved wife of a popular former Governor working in Nixon's White House, George Romney.
Jul 8, 1998 · Lenore Romney, the widow of former Michigan Gov. George Romney and a Utah native, died Tuesday. She was 89. Lenore Romney, a one-time Republican U.S. Senate candidate, suffered a stroke last Thursday at her Bloomfield Hills home and had been in critical condition since then at William Beaumont Hospital.
At a February 21, 1970 meeting of the Michigan Republican Party, convened to declare a "consensus" candidate, liberal U.S. Representative Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (who would be Hart’s successor after switching to the Democratic Party) and conservative State Senator Robert J. Huber joined Milliken in opposition, [6] blocking Lenore Romney from ...
May 10, 2012 · While Lenore Romney did not express full-fledged support for legalizing abortion, which was a felony offense during her 1970 Senate run, she pushed for "more liberal abortion rights" and ''greatly ...
Lenore LaFount Romney was the First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970. Lenore was born on November 9, 1908, in Logan, Utah, and reared in Salt Lake City. She earned a degree from George Washington University in 1929. She also attended the University of Utah.
