including two with Michigan connections: Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin "Magic" Johnson and the late George Romney, who served three two-year terms as the state's governor. The White House sent ...

The last former lieutenant governor to become governor in Michigan was Republican William Milliken. In 1969, then-Gov. George Romney resigned to join President Richard Nixon’s administration ...

I want Michigan to be the ... was the last lieutenant governor to succeed to the top job. But that was because he filled a vacancy after then-Gov. George Romney resigned mid-term to join President ...

Michigan’s Governor George Romney observed recently that when it came to his putative candidacy for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, he felt like a newly established grocer suffering ...