Meet the candidates: Mitt Romney

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Voters who followed the 2008 presidential election will probably be familiar with Mitt Romney. Romney is a conservative businessman who ran a three-way race with Mike Huckabee and John McCain for the Republican nomination before finally being defeated by John McCain. Many voters probably remember Romney best for the controversy over his Mormon religion.

Willard Mitt Romney was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947. His father was a CEO of American Motors and a three-term governor of Michigan. His father ran unsuccessfully against Richard Nixon for the GOP nomination for president in 1968. Mitt graduated from an elite private school and then attended Stanford University in the midst of the turbulent ‘60s. At Stanford he was known as a clean cut student and at one point was part of a counter-protest to a sit-in against the draft. After a year at Stanford, he became a Mormon missionary to France for two and a half years.

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