Following is an introduction to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney:
Candidate status: Announced
Filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC on Jan. 3, 2007
Current job: Term as Massachusetts governor ended in Jan. 2007
Birth date: March 12, 1947; Detroit, Michigan
Family: Married Ann Davies (1969-present); five children
Religion: Mormon
Education: Brigham Young University, B.A., 1971; Harvard University, M.B.A., J.D., 1975
Career:
1978-1984: Vice president at management consulting firm Bain & Company Inc.
1984: Founded Bain Capital, a venture capital and investment company.
1994: Ran unsuccessfully as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate against incumbent Ted Kennedy.
2002: With the 2002 Winter Olympics mired in controversy, he took over as president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
2002: Elected governor of Massachusetts. He did not seek a second term in 2006.
Other Facts:
His father, George Romney, was a three-term governor of Michigan and made an unsuccessful run for the GOP presidential nomination in 1968.
Romney is the author of "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games" (2004).
Source:Xinhua
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