Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney (born Willard Mitt Romney) is an American politician and businessman best known for his 2012 Republican presidential run and time serving as a U.S. Senator from Utah. Mitt is the son of former Michigan governor George Romney and was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He earned a degree in English from Brigham Young University. He later received a joint JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

Mitt began his career in management consulting before joining Bain & Company and later founding Bain Capital, a private equity firm. He gained national attention during his tenure as president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, where he was credited with turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics.

In 2003, he was elected governor of Massachusetts, serving one term and signing a landmark health care reform law. He launched an unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 before eventually securing the party’s nomination in 2012. Ultimately, Romney lost to Democratic nominee Barack Obama in the general election. In 2018, he was elected to the U.S. Senate representing Utah.

Mitt married Ann Romney in 1969. The couple share five sons and over two dozen grandchildren.