Romney family
Mitt Romney and his wife Ann
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| Current region | United States |
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| Place of origin | England |
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Harold A. Lafount Ann Romney Elwood Romney Gaskell Romney George S. Romney George W. Romney G. Ott Romney Keith Romney Lenore Romney Marion G. Romney Miles Park Romney Miles Romney Mitt Romney Ronna Romney Ronna Romney McDaniel Scott Romney Tagg Romney Vernon B. Romney |
| Connected families | Eyrings, Kimballs, Mathesons, Pratts, Smiths |
| Traditions | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
The Romney family, prominent in U.S. politics and other professions, is most known for its connection with George W. Romney (1907 in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1995 at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), 43rd governor of Michigan (1963–1969) and his son, Mitt Romney (born 1947 in Detroit, Michigan), 70th governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), and Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States in 2012. George Romney's father was Gaskell Romney (1871 in St. George, Utah – 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah), and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt. Anna's grandfather was renowned early Mormon leader Parley Parker Pratt.
Based upon the family's heritage going back to the first Mormon generation and to their modern-day prominence in business, politics, and as part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, authors Richard and Joan Ostling have written variously that the Romneys are "an LDS political dynasty" and that "The Romneys are LDS royalty." The family is linked by marriage to the Smith family, and has a lateral relationship with the Matheson family, the Huntsman family, and the Eyring family. A branch of the Romneys reside in the Mormon colonies in Mexico. The Romney family emigrated to the United States from Dalton-in-Furness, England in the 1840s.
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