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Romney has three older siblings: Margo, Jane, and Scott. Mitt was the youngest by nearly six years. [17] His parents named him after a family friend, businessman J. Willard Marriott, and his father's cousin, Milton "Mitt" Romney, a former quarterback for the Chicago Bears. [18]
The family in 2021. The Romney family is prominent in U.S. politics. [1] Its family members include George W. Romney (1907–1995), the 43rd Governor of Michigan (1963–1969), and his son, Mitt Romney (born 1947), who was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), the 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential nominee, and later a U.S. Senator for Utah (2019–2025).
Ronna Stern Romney's sister, Terry (Stern) Rakolta, gained prominence as an anti-obscenity activist in the late 1980s; Terry's husband, John Rakolta, is a Detroit businessman who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2019 to 2021, and was a national finance chair for Mitt Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
Romney's grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States to Mexico with their children owing to the federal government's prosecution of polygamy. [1] [2] His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt (1846–1909), who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt (1807 ...
By Erika Riggs After a barrage of pressure to release his tax forms, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney reported his income, confirming what most already knew: He's the wealthiest of the ...
For weeks, Mitt Romney's campaign has struggled to explain the candidate's refusal to release concrete details about his proposed tax reforms or budget cuts. On Monday, however, Romney managed to ...
VanderSloot personally gave the Romney campaign $2,500 -- the nominal sum that remains the maximum direct donation to a candidate -- and hosted fundraisers during the current contest and the 2008 ...
McDaniel was born Ronna Romney on March 20, 1973, [11] in Austin, Texas. [citation needed] The third of five children born to Ronna Stern Romney and Scott Romney, the older brother of Mitt Romney, McDaniel is a granddaughter of three-term Michigan Governor George W. Romney.