Lenore Romney

Lenore LaFount Romney was an American actress and political figure. The wife of businessman and politician George W. Romney, she was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan. Her youngest son, Mitt Romney, was the former Governor of Massachusetts and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

Lenore LaFount was born in Logan, Utah, and raised in Salt Lake City. She went to Latterday Saints High School, where she developed an interest in drama and first met George Romney. She attended the University of Utah and George Washington University, graduating from the latter in 1929. She studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York, then went to Hollywood where she became a bit player who appeared in a number of films with MetroGoldwynMayer. Turning down a contract offer with them, she married George Romney in 1931. The couple had four children together she was a stayathome mother, eventually living in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, while he became a success in business and politics.

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