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Why Mitt Romney Wrote Down As Much As He Did
The fact that Sen. Mitt Romney, instead of publishing his own memoir next month, worked with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins on a biography—Romney: A Reckoning—tells us two things. First, Romney knows that he’s never going to be president. Second, on his way out, Romney is still responding to a calling—one that comes in part from his own Mormon faith—to try, one last time, to dislodge the GOP from Trump and save the American republic from Trumpism.
It’s not a surprise that Romney has turned to Coppins to help author his farewell address. Coppins, an excellent storyteller and chronicler of Republican politics in the Trump years, is a fellow Latter-day Saint who came of age in Massachusetts when Romney was governor of the state. That shared background is important. We found out last week, when Coppins published an excerpt of the biography on the Atlantic’s website, that in 2021 Romney and Coppins began meeting in Romney’s Senate offices or in his tony Washington town house, and had long conversations during which, Romney told Coppi
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Mitt Romney
American politician and businessman (born 1947)
This article is about the American politician. For the football player who went by the same name, see Milton Romney. For the singer with a similar sounding name, see Ritt Momney.
Mitt Romney | |
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Official portrait, 2019 | |
| In office January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Orrin Hatch |
| Succeeded by | John Curtis |
| In office January 2, 2003 – January 4, 2007 | |
| Lieutenant | Kerry Healey |
| Preceded by | Jane Swift (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Deval Patrick |
| Born | Willard Mitt Romney (1947-03-12) March 12, 1947 (age 77) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican (1993–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (before 1993) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 5, including Tagg |
| Parent(s) | George W. Romney Lenore LaFount |
| Relatives | Romney family |
| Education | |
| Awards | List of honors and awards |
| Signature | |
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician. He served as a United States senator from Utah
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Mitt Romney's Mormon roots in northern England
It's well-known that Republican contender for the US presidency Mitt Romney is a Mormon - but not that his family was converted in England. He doesn't mention it on the campaign trail, but his great-great-grandfather, a Preston carpenter, became one of the first British Mormons, 175 years ago.
"This is the spot - this is where it all started," says historian Aidan Turner-Bishop pointing down to a small, unmarked and unprepossessing, shingle beach.
The sun is just starting to set over the banks of the River Ribble in Preston. The birds are singing gently. It is an idyllic scene.
"On a hot summer's day, this is where the kids come to play," says Turner-Bishop.
This is the site where the very first Mormon baptisms outside North America took place.
And it is almost certainly the spot where the Romney family were baptised into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in the late 1830s, at the start of a wave of 19th Century Mormon conversions in E
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