June 2-Announces
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Jan. 20-On Inauguration Day, Romney will be 64 years, 10
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Elected Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts def. State Treasurer Shannon O'Brien (D) by 49.8% to 44.9%. | Dec. 14-Announces that he will not seek re-election. | Feb. 13-Announces
candidacy for Republican presidential nomination. |
Feb. 7-Suspends
campaign.
April 8-Forms Free and Strong America PAC. Dec.-Ann diagnosed
with breast cancer. |
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Takes leave from Bain Capital, returns to serve as interim CEO of Bain & Company. | Republican nominee for U.S. Senate; defeated by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) by 58.1% to 41.0%. | Wife Ann diagnosed with MS. | President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, Feb. 1999-2002. |
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With Coleman Andrews and Eric Kriss founds Bain Capital, Inc. and is CEO. |
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First of five children (all boys) born-Taggart. Works on mother Lenore's U.S. Senate race in Michigan. | B.A. from Brigham Young University. To Boston and starts at Harvard. | M.B.A from Harvard Business School and J.D. from Harvard Law School. | Works at Boston Consulting Group, an international business consulting firm, 1975-7. | Joins Bain & Company, a Boston-based management consulting firm. | Vice President of Bain & Company, |
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Helps campaign for his father, George, for Governor of Michigan (served 1963-69). | Attends Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. | Graduates from the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, MI. A year at Stanford Univ. | Second semester at Stanford. Missionary in France for 2 1/2 years. | (Nov. 18-Father, George, announces candidacy for president). | June-Still in France, survives serious car crash. Finishes mission in late 1968. | March 21-marries Ann Davies. Transfers to BYU. |
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(Father, George, serves as chairman and president of American Motors, 1954-62). |
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Born March 12, 1947 in Detroit, MI (fourth child). |
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Controversy over release of tax returns (Dec. 2011-Jan. 2012) | Controversy
over release of tax returns (July-Aug. 2012)
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of 2011 tax
returns (Sept. 21, 2012)
Attack on
Mormon faith
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