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BIOGRAPHY AND TIMELINE

BRIEF OVERVIEW

Full Name :

Willard Mitt Romney

Born:

March 12, 1947, Detroit, Michigan

Family:

Wife Ann (married 37 years); five sons, ten grandchildren

Residences:

171 Marsh Street Belmont, MA 02478 2005 assessed value: $3.162 million 87 Claflin Road Wolfeboro, NH 03894 2006 estimated value: $5 million

The Boston Herald

noted Romney’s “$5 million Lake Winnipesaukee estate … features a three-story, six-bedroom, 3-bathroom house, a sprawling $200,000 stone boathouse and a recently renovated $500,000 carriage house with guest quarters.”

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Vacation home Deer Valley, UT 2006 estimated value: $5.2 million

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Education:

The Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, MI (1965) Stanford University (1965-66, departed for 30-month mission after freshman year) B.A., Brigham Young University (1971) M.B.A., Harvard Business School; J.D., Harvard Law School (1975)

Employment:

Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (1975-77) Consultant, Bain & Company, Inc. (1977) Vice President, Bain & Company, Inc. (1978-84) Co-founder and managing general partner, Bain Capital, Inc. (1984-99) Interim CEO, Bain & Company, Inc. (1991-93) President and CEO, Salt Lake Organizing Committee (1999-2002)

Political Career:

Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts (1994) Governor of Massachusetts (2003-07) Chairman, Republican Governors Association (2005-06)

BIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE

March 12, 194 7

Romney is born in Detroit, MI, youngest of four children of future Michigan Gov. George Romney and his wife Lenore.

Spring 196 5

Graduates from the Cranbrook School, an exclusive, all-male prep school in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Au gu st 1965

Enrolls at Stanford University, where he spends only one year.

Jun e 196 6

Departs for France on a Mormon mission that will last 2½ years.

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The Boston Herald

, 7/29/05

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Deseret Morning News

, 12/24/06