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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 ...
George Romney ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election. Romney was the Governor of Michigan and automaker who focused his campaign on the issues of fiscal responsibility, welfare reform, and the Vietnam War. [1] If elected, he would have been the first Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") president.
Romney was a U.S. presidential candidate in 1968 and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development between 1969–1973. He was a great-grandson of Parley P. Pratt. [12] Lenore Romney (1909–1998) was married to George W. Romney and is the mother of Mitt Romney. She was a daughter of Harold Arundel LaFount, and was a Republican candidate for U.S ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
Anti-Trump speech. v. t. e. The Mitt Romney presidential campaign of 2008 began on January 3, 2007, two days before Mitt Romney left office as governor of Massachusetts, when he filed to form an exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission to run for President of the United States as a Republican in the 2008 election. [1]
264. ISBN. 978-0-7627-7927-7. Followed by. Closing Circles: Trapped in the Everlasting Mormon Moment. Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics is a 2011 biography of the then US presidential candidate Mitt Romney, written by the American author and journalist Ronald B. Scott. The book was conceived as an authorised biography, and ...
1968 Republican National Convention. The 1968 Republican National Convention was held at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Dade County, Florida, USA, from August 5 to August 8, 1968, to select the party's nominee in the general election. It nominated former Vice President Richard Nixon for president and Maryland Governor Spiro ...
The political positions of Mitt Romney have been recorded from his 1994 U.S. senatorial campaign in Massachusetts, the 2002 gubernatorial election, during his 2003–2007 governorship, during his 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, in his 2010 book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, during his 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, and during his 2018 senatorial campaign in Utah.