George Romney, born on polygamist colony, touted as immigrant success
Mitt Romney’s son, Craig Romney, made an unusual pitch to Latino voters Thursday, drawing on his late grandfather, George Romney, born into a Mexican polygamist colony, as an example of immigrant success.
"It’s easy to forget that the story of my father’s success begins with the story of two immigrants — my grandfathers — who came to this country with little more than hope in the opportunity of America," Craig Romney said in his speech to the Republican National Convention.
George Romney was born to parents who were not polygamous in Mexico in 1907, but returned to the United States when George Romney was 5 years old to escape the Mexican Revolution. He went on to become the head of American Motors and governor of Michigan.
George Romney ran for president in 1964 and was eligible to serve — despite a Constitutional ban on foreign-born presidents — because his parents were U.S. citizens.
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who he was talking about at first. He was saying there was a
man who, as a child, fled a revolution in his country, and came
to America ... something like that. Mitt's own father came to
America to pursue the dream, in other words. An immigrant's
story.
Everyone kept talking about how they are where they are today
because their fathers and mothers and grandfathers worked in the
coal mines and were nurses and teachers and firemen and only
had beans to eat and sacrificed everything for their kids, so that
they could be where they are today, which is, where exactly?