Romney Family Files: Fled to Mexico Due to a Polygamy Ban Making Them ‘The First Displaced Persons of the 20th Century’ (crooksandliars)
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Rick Santorum fared incredibly well in the Iowa caucus Tuesday night. It
ended in an almost virtual tie with Romney pulling ahead by a handful of
votes. In Santorum’s “victory speech” he discussed his family’s working class
roots. We rarely hear anything much about Mitt Romney’s family even though his
father ran American Motors and was Governor of Michigan. What about Romney’s
roots?
I decided to research Mitt Romney’s father. George Romney was a powerful
industrial and political figure of his day.
Romney’s family came from England, converted to Mormonism, came to America and
quickly turned to _plural _marriage which led them to an unexpected exile and
exodus to Mexico and then just as abruptly, they fled back to the USA to avoid
a revolution.
It’s an unexpected backstory to the “next in line” probable GOP nominee.
In this post I’ll use information I found from the book by Tom Mahoney
published in 1960 called ‘The Story Of George Romney.”
Mitt comes from a long line of Romney’s that resided in England for
generations and when an early Mormon missionary from America named Orson Hyde
came to England to spread their word, Gaskell Romney and his …