On Jan 7, 9:10 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> While George Romney was born in Mexico, he was still considered a
> viable and legal candidate for United States president. His Mormon
> grandfather and his three wives had fled to Mexico in 1886, but none
> of them ever relinquished U.S. citizenship. While the Constitution
> requires that a president must be a natural-born citizen, the first
> Congress of the United States in 1790 passed legislation stating: "The
> children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the
> sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered
> as natural-born citizens of the United States." Romney and his family
> fled Mexico in 1912 prior to the Mexican Revolution. However, the
> Naturalization Act of 1795 repealed the Act of 1790[citation needed]
> and removed the language explicitly stating that the children of U.S.
> citizens are natural-born citizens. As such, it is not clear that
> Romney was actually eligible for the office of president.
>
> All of this makes Mitt the son of a Mexican Citizen. His father was
> two generations removed from the US.
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