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George W. Romney - Wikipedia  George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907  July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican politician. He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of ... He was the father of former Governor of Massachusetts and 2012...
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GOP hopeful Mitt Romney follows father's footsteps - Rutland Herald  Nov 9, 2007 ... At the time, George Romney was governor of Michigan and former chairman of American ... his five sons and the family life he's built with Ann  all tied to his father's influence. ... In the 1960s, Democrats dominated Michigan. ... Recruited by the Massachusetts GOP to run for governor in 2002, Romney...
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Romney name has a familiar ring in Michigan - The Boston Globe  Jan 13, 2008 ... George Romney may be the closest thing Michigan politics has to the Rambler he ... who has emerged in a central role in his son's campaign for president. ... "As you know, my father served as governor here for many years," the ... against his party's southern, rightward drift on those issues in the 1960s.
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Mitt Romney - Wikipedia  Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947), better known as Mitt Romney, is an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 ... Following his term as Governor of Massachusetts in 2007, Romney was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in...
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The Real Mitt Romney : snopes.com  Jul 2, 2012 ... Volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year. ... Unpaid bishop and stake president for his church 10 years. ... Origins: This item about former Massachusetts governor and 2012 ... He's going to make things better. ... Mitt Romney served as a Mormon missionary in France for a...
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Richard J. Daley - Wikipedia  Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902  December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago for a total of 21 years (19551976) and ... Daley is the father of Richard M. Daley, also a former mayor of Chicago, ... his family, his neighborhood, the Democratic Party, and his love of the city.
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List of state leaders in 1966 - Wikipedia  This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 1966. ..... Ludwig Erhard, Federal Chancellor of West Germany (19631966); Kurt Georg ... Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of Berlin (19571966); Heinrich Albertz,...
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Michael S. Dukakis | C-SPAN.org  Calvin Coolidge, Master Politician. Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, 1988 Democratic nominee for president and a native son of...
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M. L. King Jr.'s Son Quotes Father in Taking SCLC Post - latimes  Nov 2, 1997 ... The eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. sounded like his father Saturday, standing before the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as its new president and ... Martin Luther King III recited a part of his father's "I Have a Dream" ... At 40, an age his father never reached, King was elected Saturday by the...
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Ex-Governor Apologizes For Trying to Stay in Office - The New York ...  Jul 17, 1996 ... By THE NEW YORK TIMES JULY 17, 1996 ... Mike Huckabee as Governor and disrupted a planned celebration by Mr. Huckabee's fellow...
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JFK, LBJ, & the Midterm Elections of 1962 and 1966Miller Center  They picked up 3 Senate seats, 47 House seats, and 8 governerships. ... Michigan Governor George Romney not only won his own election easily but also ... Although he was not seeking office himself in 1966, Richard Nixon emerged .... and November Elections: The Cuban Missile Crisis and American Politics, 1962,"...
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Politics by gaffe: recalling the 'brainwashing' of George Romney ...  Dec 2, 2011 ... George Romney  father of Mitt Romney, of course former CEO of American ... In a TV interview with a Detroit station, he was confronted with the ... by the generals and State Department officials who briefed him on his visit. .... I was a teenager in Michigan during the time that George Romney was governor.
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George Romney presidential campaign, 1968 - Wikipedia  George Romney ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election. Romney was the Governor of Michigan and automaker who focused his campaign on the issues of fiscal responsibility, welfare reform, and the Vietnam War. If elected, he would have been the first Mormon president. ... Initially, Romney supported the Vietnam War, but after a 1965 trip there, he...
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George Romney, born on polygamist colony, touted as immigrant ...  Aug 30, 2012 ... George Romney was born to parents who were not polygamous in Mexico in 1907, but returned to the United States when George Romney was ... He went on to become the head of American Motors and governor of Michigan. George Romney ran for president in 1968 and was eligible to serve  despite a...
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Michael Dukakis - Biography - IMDb  Michael Dukakis, three-term governor of the Commonwealth of ... politics) and even proved a hindrance to social mobility, the Dukakis family was committed to assimilation. .... Unlike future Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (who had .... primary season in 1988, she spoke to her cousin Michael on-camera, telling...
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George W. Romney - Wikipedia  George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907  July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and ... He was the father of former Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 ... He requested the intervention of federal troops during the 1967 Detroit riot. ... been due to a "brainwashing" by U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his...
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Does Romney Have a "Nixon Problem"? - Michael Medved - Townhall  Oct 26, 2011 ... A ghost from 1968 haunts the campaign of Mitt Romney-- and no it's not the memory of his father, the late Michigan governor George Romney, who ... right) or New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and New York City Mayor John ... Ted Kennedy) and the battle for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008,...
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Michigan gubernatorial election, 1998 - Wikipedia  The 1998 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1998, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the state of Michigan. Incumbent Governor John Engler, a member of the Republican Party, was ... Geoffrey Fieger, a lawyer who had represented the assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.
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Win Rockefeller, 57; Billionaire Rancher, Lt. Gov. of Arkansas - latimes  Jul 17, 2006 ... Win Rockefeller, a reserved billionaire rancher who was more likely to ... He was the son of Winthrop Rockefeller, governor of Arkansas from 1967 to ... July 1996 after Jim Guy Tucker was convicted as part of the investigation...
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Former Governors - Montana's Official State Website  She was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Team and also Miss ... Marc Racicot, a Republican from Missoula and Helena, was born July 24, 1948, .... Montana's tax burden, ensuring that corporations paid appropriate taxes.
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Michael Dukakis - Wikipedia  Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American politician who served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991 ... He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, but lost to ..... and became a professor of political science at Northeastern University, a visiting...