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  1. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party 's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election, losing to Barack Obama . Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by George and Lenore Romney, he spent over two years in France as a Mormon missionary.

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    On September 13, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah announced he won’t seek reelection, meaning the 76-year-old will retire from Congress when his current term expires in 2025. “At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-80s,” he saidin a video statement. “Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders.” During his announcement, Romney criticized le...

    Mitt Romney is the junior U.S. senator from Utah and was the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States during the 2012 election, when he lost to Barack Obama. The son of former Michigan Governor George Romney, Mitt founded the investment firm Bain Capital and later ran for the Massachusetts Senate in 1994, losing to incumbent Te...

    FULL NAME: Willard Mitt Romney BORN: March 12, 1947 BIRTHPLACE: Detroit, Michigan SPOUSE: Ann Lois Davies (1969-present) CHILDREN: Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Pisces

    Born Willard Mitt Romney on March 12, 1947, in Detroit and raised in the nearby suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Mitt Romney is the son of George Romney, who served as Michigan governor in the 1960s. Mitt attended the prestigious Cranbrook School before receiving his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in 1971. He attended Harvard Law Sch...

    Romney began his career in business. He worked for the management consulting firm Bain & Company before founding the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984. A decade later, in 1994, he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts but was defeated by longtime incumbent Ted Kennedy. Romney stepped into the national spotlight in 1999, when he took...

    After serving one term as governor and choosing not to run for reelection, Romney decided to follow in his father’s footsteps again by running for U.S. president. George had sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, when Richard Nixon became the party’s candidate. During his 2008 White House bid, Mitt made it through Super Tuesday, win...

    At a farm in New Hampshire on June 2, 2011, Romney announced the official start of his campaign for the 2012 presidential election. The candidate took many standard Republican positions on taxes, the economy, and fighting terrorism, while consistently and vocally criticizing incumbent President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Specifically, Romney denounc...

    Romney retreated from the public eye following his draining 2012 presidential campaign and defeat. He rejoined the board of directors of Marriott International and became executive partner group chairman of Solamere Capital, occasionally surfacing for interviews. By 2014, the former presidential nominee was back in the game, throwing his weight beh...

    In mid-February 2018, Romney confirmed his Senate bid via a video announcement, saying, “I have decided to run for United States Senate because I believe I can help bring Utah’s values and Utah’s lessons to Washington.” With Senator John McCainbattling brain cancer and seemingly in the twilight of his career, pundits suggested that Romney would ass...

    The American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God-loving,...
    I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social, or sexual, orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one...
  2. Nov 6, 2012 · America. PHOTO: Mitt And Ann Romney Cast Their Ballots In Massachusetts. November 6, 20129:16 AM ET. Eyder Peralta. Enlarge this image. Republican presidential candidate, former...

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  4. Feb 8, 2012 · News. Home. Republican Candidate Mitt Romney. Feb. 8, 2012, at 4:15 p.m. Save. View all 54 Photos. Charles Dharapak | AP. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts...

  5. FILE - Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears on stage during a campaign event at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Aug. 31, 2012, in Lakeland, Fla. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

  6. Nov 4, 2012 · Mr Romney, a former one-term governor of Massachusetts, brought to the race wealth, business experience, a national profile and a broad network of fundraisers and supporters left over from...

  7. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney takes the stage to deliver his nomination acceptance speech during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images