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George W. Romney. George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and 3rd secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 ...
Oct 29, 2012 · The plan, George Romney wrote in a confidential memo to aides, was to use his power as secretary of Housing and Urban Development to remake America's housing patterns, which he described as a ...
Jul 26, 1995 · George W. Romney, a former American Motors Corp. chairman who served as Michigan's governor and saw his presidential bid dashed by his remark that he had been brainwashed over Vietnam, died Wednesday. He was 88. Romney, who also held leadership positions in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at his home. The Oakland County medical examiner's office pronounced him dead of ...
Dec 18, 2007 · Dec. 18, 2007. WASHINGTON George Romney had big ideas for his youngest child. Mitt Romney had already made millions as the founder of a giant buyout firm. But his father wanted Mitt to follow him ...
for equality. George Wilcken Romney accomplished so much in his 88 years that his enormous contributions to the cause of civil rights are sometimes forgotten. They must not be. George Romney was born July 8, 1907 in Mexico. US citizens, Romney’s parents brought George and his six siblings home in 1912, fleeing the ongoing Mexican revolution.
Childhood & Early Life. George Wilcken Romney was born on July 8, 1907 in Colonia Dublán, a Mormon colony in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Gaskell Romney and Anna Amelia nee Pratt. Born as the fourth of his parents’ seven children, George had three elder brothers, namely, Gaskell Maurice Romney, Douglas Pratt Romney and Miles Pratt Romney.
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election, losing to Barack Obama.
