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Mitt Romney earned a bachelor of arts in English from Brigham Young University and a joint JD-MBA from Harvard University. He was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France. He was a cofounder of Bain Capital, a highly profitable private equity investment firm. He served as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002, became the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election, and was elected as a U.S. Senator from Utah in 2018. He married Ann Davies in 1969, and they have five sons.
Ann Romney received a bachelor of arts degree in French from Brigham Young University and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Southern Utah University in 2014. As the first lady of Massachusetts, she worked to focus attention on the challenges facing at-risk youth and served as the Governor’s Liaison to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, she has volunteered much of her time to raise awareness of the disease and founded the Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She places primary importance on being a wife, a mother of five sons, and a grandmother.