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5 unusual facts about George Romney


Allison Green

He was also appointed by Governor George Romney as Michigan's state treasurer in 1965, retiring from that position in 1978 as the longest-serving treasurer in Michigan history.

George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick

He was also the first aristocratic patron to George Romney, from whom he commissioned several portraits of his children and two wives.

George Romney

George W. Romney (1907–1995), CEO of American Motors, Governor of Michigan, U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, father of Mitt Romney

G. Scott Romney (born 1941), Michigan lawyer and politician, son of George W. Romney and brother of Mitt Romney

George S. Romney (1874–1935), president of the college now known as Brigham Young University-Idaho


Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton was the birthplace and early home of George Romney in the 1700s as well as his grandson Miles Romney in the early 1800s, both are ancestors of former US-presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Edward Wortley Montagu

He set out for extended travel in the East, and George Romney describes him as living in the Turkish manner at Venice.

Harriet Mellon

She was widely celebrated for her beauty, and was painted by George Romney and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Oakley, Idaho

Jon Huntsman of Utah is the grandson of David B. Haight, above, and Mitt Romney, of Massachusetts is the son of another famous Oakley-ite, George Romney.

William Camden Edwards

Among his other plates were Milton and his Daughters, after George Romney, a landscape after Salvator Rosa, and The Head of St. John the Baptist on a Charger, from a picture in Dawson Turner's collection.


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