Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Chapters: Mexican Latter Day Saints, Mormon missionaries in Mexico, Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico, George W. Romney, Benji Schwimmer, Marion G. Romney, Ervil LeBaron, Henry Eyring, Richard Dutcher, Eduardo Balderas, BJ Flores, Benjamin LeBaron, Rey Pratt, Rex E. Lee, Moses Thatcher, Daniel Webster Jones, Agricol Lozano, Edward Stevenson, Jorge A. Rojas, Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Joel LeBaron, Spencer V. Jones, Ammon M. Tenney, Richard J. Maynes, Mormon colonies in Mexico, Joe J. Christensen, Craig C. Christensen, Octaviano Tenorio, Benjamín de Hoyos, Lino Alvarez, Arturo de Hoyos, Tai Wesley, Antoine R. Ivins, Carl B. Pratt, Robert E. Wells, Robert J. Whetten, Adrián Ochoa, Carl F. Eyring, Paul B. Pieper, Isaías Juárez, Luis Gómez, Helaman Pratt, Kent F. Richards, Kevin J. Worthen, Fernando R. Gomez, De Lamar Jensen, Ida R. Alldredge, Daniel L. Johnson, Erasmo Fuentes, C. Scott Grow, Plotino Rhodakanaty, Colonia Dublán, Veracruz México Temple, Jeffrey Max Jones, Mexico City Mexico Temple, Joseph T. Bentley, John B. Dickson, Third Convention, Mérida México Temple, Colonia Juárez Chihuahua México Temple, Monterrey México Temple, Bruce E. Dale, Horacio A. Tenorio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez México Temple, Irene Becerril, Alan D. Clemmons, Horace H. Cummings, Tampico México Temple, Oaxaca México Temple, Jose L. Alonso, Ralph Flores, Guadalajara México Temple, Rafael Monroy, Academia Juárez, Villahermosa México Temple, Ciudad Juárez México Temple, Hermosillo Sonora México Temple. Excerpt: George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He is the father of former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and the husband of former Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney. Romney was born to American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to move back to the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled during the Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served as a Mormon missionary in England and Scotland, and attended two universities in the U.S. but did not graduate from either. In 1939 he moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, where he served as the chief spokesperson for the automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative arrangement in which companies could share production improvements. He joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948, and became chairman and CEO of its successor, American Motors Corporation in 1954. There he turned around the struggling firm by focusing all efforts on the smaller Rambler car. Romney mocked the products of the "Big Three" automakers as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" and became one of the first high-profile, media-savvy business executives. Devoutly religious, Romney presided over the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Romney entered politics by participating in a state constitutional convention to rewrite the Michigan Constitution during 1961 1962. He was elected Governor of Michigan in 1962 and was re-elected by increasingly large margins in 1...
