American family prominent in politics, business, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Further information on the family of Gaskell Romney's wife Anna Pratt: Pratt family
Romney family
Members of the Romney family at 2012 RNC
Current region
United States
Place of origin
Dalton-in-Furness
Connected families
Matheson family, Pratt family, Smith family
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 is currently a U.S. Senator for Utah. George W. Romney's father was Gaskell Romney[2][3][4][5] (1871–1955), and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt (1876–1926).[6][7] Anna's grandfather was the renowned early Latter-day Saint apostle Parley Parker Pratt.[8][9][10]
Authors Richard and Joan Ostling have written that the Romneys are "an LDS political dynasty"[11] and "LDS royalty",[12] based on the family's heritage and their modern-day prominence in business, politics and as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family is linked by marriage to the Smith family,[6] and has a lateral relationship with the Matheson family, the Huntsman family,[13][14] and the Eyring family.[15] A branch of the Romneys reside in the Mormon colonies in Mexico.[16][17] The Romney family emigrated to the United States from Dalton-in-Furness, England in the 1840s.[18][19]
^"THE NEW KENNEDYS: Eight American Political Dynasties Of The 21st Century", Grace Wyler. Business Insider. September 1, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2011
^Romney, Mitt (2004), Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games, Regnery Publishing, ISBN 978-0-89526-084-0
^Romney, Catharine Cottam; Hansen, Jennifer Moulton (ed.) (1992), Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, plural wife, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 9780252018688 {{citation}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
^Romney, Thomas Cottam (1938). Mormon Colonies in Mexico. University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874808384. (Reprinted in 2005, ISBN 978-0-87480-838-4). publisher's page on the book
^Kranish, Michael; Helman, Scott (2012), The Real Romney, HarperCollins, p. 52, ISBN 9780062123299
^ abLamb, Brian (March 19, 2006), Q&A with Mitt Romney, C-SPAN
^Harris, T. George (1968), Romney's Way: A Man and an Idea, Prentice-Hall, p. 15, ...young Gaskell Romney married a Pratt girl, Anna Amelia. ... Anna Pratt Romney, George's mother, belonged to the bluestockings of the Mormon establishment."
^Bowman, Matthew (2012), The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith, Random House, p. xix, ISBN 9780679644903, One hundred and fifty years after the death of his ancestor, Parley Pratt's great-great-grandson Mitt Romney announced his bid for the Republican Party's nomination. ... He had served as governor of Massachusetts, and his father, George, as governor of Michigan.
^Denton, Sally (January 29, 2012), Mitt and the White Horse Prophesy, Salon magazine, ...the youngest son of the most prominent Mormon in American politics — a seventh-generation direct descendant of one of the faith's founding 12 apostles—Mitt Romney....
^Rich, Frank (January 29, 2012), "Who in God's Name Is Mitt Romney?", New York, Romney is...the scion of a family dynasty integral to the progress of an American-born faith....
^Ostling, Richard N.; Ostling, Joan K. (1999). Mormon America: The Power and the Promise. New York: HarperOne. p. 134. ISBN 0-06-066372-3.
^Ostling, Richard N.; Ostling, Joan K. (2007). Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (Revised ed.). New York: HarperOne. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-06-143295-8.
^Barbaro, Michael; Parker, Ashley (January 4, 2012), "On Stage, an Awkward Reminder of Personal Rifts in G.O.P.", The New York Times, The Romney and Huntsman families — two intertwined clans that go back to the early days of Mormonism....
^Krasny, Ros; Nichols, Michelle (January 2, 2012), Huntsman tries to turn up heat on Romney in N. Hampshire, Reuters, 'Both Romney and Huntsman descend from Parley P. Pratt, one of the most storied early Mormon leaders,' said Joanna Brooks, a Mormon scholar.... 'Both have family and personal connections to the institutional hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And both enjoy an unusual degree of access to high-ranking church leaders,' she said.
^Dictionary of scientific biography, vol. 17, Scribner, 1981, ISBN 978-0-684-16966-8
^"Mitt Romney, campaigning for Latino vote in Florida, seldom mentions Mexican roots". Associated Press. January 26, 2012.[dead link]
^"Gaskell Romney", The Boston Globe, retrieved January 30, 2012
^Cordelia Hebblethwaite (June 13, 2012). "Mitt Romney's Mormon roots in northern England". BBC News Online, Preston. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
^"The Making of Mitt Romney [gallery image caption]", The Boston Globe, p. 2, retrieved January 30, 2012
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