| Romney family | |
| Region: | United States |
| Otherfamilies: | Matheson family, Pratt family, Smith family |
The Romney family is prominent in U.S. politics.[1] Its family members include George W. Romney (1907–1995), the 43rd Governor of Michigan (1963–1969), and his son, Mitt Romney (born 1947), who was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), the 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential nominee, and is currently a U.S. Senator for Utah. George W. Romney's father was Gaskell Romney[2] (1871–1955), and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt (1876–1926). Anna's grandfather was the renowned early Latter-day Saint apostle Parley Parker Pratt.
Authors Richard and Joan Ostling have written that the Romneys are "an LDS political dynasty"[3] and "LDS royalty",[4] based on the family's heritage and their modern-day prominence in business, politics and as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family is linked by marriage to the Smith family, and has a lateral relationship with the Matheson family, the Huntsman family, and the Eyring family. A branch of the Romneys reside in the Mormon colonies in Mexico.[5] The Romney family emigrated to the United States from Dalton-in-Furness, England in the 1840s.[6]