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Mr. George Romney, the honorable Governor of Michigan, has promised apprehensive Republican legislators of his state that he will not actively seek the Presidential nomination.
Feb. 10, 1962: George Romney, the president of American Motors, announced his candidacy for governor of Michigan. Romney, a Republican, would defeat Gov. John Swainson (D) in November.
George Romney was labeled the one to watch as Michigan’s last constitutional convention took shape in October 1961. The words proved prophetic. The Oakland County Republican and president of ...
His father, George Romney, was chairman of AMC Motors from 1954-62, and then served as governor of Michigan from 1962-68. But a recent poll shows Mike Huckabee slightly ahead of Romney, with John ...
In 2008, Romney won the Republican presidential primary in Michigan. On the campaign trail, he likes to tell stories about his father, George, who was an iconic governor of Michigan in the 1960s: ...
George Romney was born July 8, 1907, in Chihuahua, Mexico, where his parents and other Mormons had moved to avoid persecution and U.S. laws against polygamy.
Many voters in tomorrow's primary will be too young to remember Romney's father, who served as governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, but his name still resonates here.
SALT LAKE CITY — President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to George Romney, the late governor of Michigan and secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Nixon administration.
HORTON — Mitt Romney is sometimes touted as being a choice for GOP president.The name brings back memories of his dad, George Romney. In 1962, Michigan Gov. John Swainson gave voters a choice ...
Often, the certitude and principled hard-headedness of his father, George Romney, the governor of Michigan and himself a presidential candidate, is conjured to make a stark contrast between father ...
Now it has 3.5 percent. The place has sunk like a stone. In 1967, Michigan Gov. George Romney acceded to an income tax, so that, as the official reasoning went, corporate taxes might be reduced.