The Romney family is a prominent American political family."THE NEW KENNEDYS: Eight American Political Dynasties Of The 21st Century", Grace Wyler. Business Insider. September 1, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2011 Its family members include George W. Romney (1907–1995), the 43rd governor of Michigan (1963–1969), and his son, Mitt Romney (born 1947), who was the 70th governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential nominee, and later a U.S. senator for Utah (2019–2025). George W. Romney's father was Gaskell Romney (Reprinted in 2005, ). publisher's page on the book (1871–1955), and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt (1876–1926). Anna's grandfather was the renowned early Latter-day Saint apostle Parley Parker Pratt.
Authors Richard and Joan Ostling have written that the Romneys are "an LDS political dynasty" and "LDS royalty", based on the family's heritage and their modern-day prominence in business, politics and as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family is linked by marriage to the Smith family, and has a lateral relationship with the Matheson family, the Huntsman family, and the Eyring family. A branch of the Romneys reside in the Mormon colonies in Mexico. The Romney family emigrated to the United States from Dalton-in-Furness, England in the 1840s.
Family members Miles Romney (1806–1877) was born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now in Cumbria), on July 13, 1806. He was the son of George Romney, Jr. (whose father, George Romney, Sr. was first cousin to the English portrait painter also named George Romney) and Sarah King. He married Elizabeth Gaskell (1809-1884) on November 16, 1830, in Dalton-in-Furness and both were converts to the LDS Church. He was an architect and designed the St. George Tabernacle and Brigham Young Winter Home and Office, the latter with his son, Miles Park Romney."A Gathering of Eagles: Conversions from the Four Quarters of the Earth", Daniel B. Gibbons. iUniverse, 2002. , 9780595219704. pp. 245-247. Miles Romney died in St. George, Utah, on May 3, 1877.
George Romney (1831 – 1920) was a son of Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell. He married Jane Jamieson (1850–?) and Vilate Ellen Douglas."Utah since statehood: historical and biographical, Volume 2", Noble Warrum. S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1919. p. 440. He was a Bishop with the LDS church and played a role in the early development of the state of Utah.
Miles Quintin Romney (1919–1998), son of Miles and Laura, was an attorney of the U.S. House of Representatives and a poet.Congressional staff directory, Volume 18. Charles Bruce Brownson. Congressional Staff Directory, 1976. p. 475.
Clyde Romney, the son of Miles Alonzo, married Almera Anderson. He was a salesman and Almera was a school principal."Supervisor Race Pits Familiar Figure Against Studious Rookie : Romney Relies on His Word, Not on His Record", Daniel Weintraub. Los Angeles Times. October 19, 1986. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
Clyde Anderson Romney (1943–2006), the son of Clyde and Almera, was the Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C., to U.S. Congressman Ron Packard of California from 1983 to 1986. A graduate of Stanford University, he was Bishop of the LDS Church San Dieguito Ward between 1974 and 1979 and Bishop of the LDS Church Carlsbad Ward. He served as LDS Church Regional Public Affairs Director for the county of San Diego and Bishop of the LDS Church Palomar Ward, Escondido South Stake from 1998 to 2006. Clyde was Chairman of the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Task Force and Congressional Facilitator of the San Luis Rey settlement act. Romney was candidate for the San Diego County board of supervisors in 1986 and the Palomar College Board of Trustees in 1988. He was a Republican.Congressional Staff Directory, 1985. Charles Brownson. Congressional Quarterly Books, 1985. , 9780872890619. p. 1023.
G. Ott Romney (1892–1973) was born in Salt Lake City, the son of George Ernst and Hannah, and died in Alexandria, Virginia. He was the third head football coach at Brigham Young University, coaching for nine years from 1928 to 1936. His national positions included chairman of the National Recreation Policies Committee, national director of the Recreation Section of the Works Progress Administration or WPA, assignments with the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and membership on U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness. During World War II he served as chief of recreation and club unit services to the United States Armed Forces through the Red Cross. He married Ruth Harding in 1919, and they were parents of three children – two girls and one boy."Ancestral File page on George Romney" , Ancestry of G. Ott Romney. Family History Department, The Church of Jesus Latter Day Saints. Retrieved December 5, 2011."G. Ott Romney Staff Bio", Brigham Young University. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
Miles Park Romney (1843–1904) was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, to Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell. He married Hannah Hood Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 10, 1862. He was the president of the St. George Social Hall Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect. He also married Caroline ("Carrie") Lambourne, Catharine Jane Cottam, Annie Maria Woodbury and Emily ("Millie") Henrietta Eyring Snow as plural wives.
Helen Hackett Brown Romney (1917–2004) was the wife of Vernon Romney. She was the Vice Chairman of Utah Republican Party, and served on the State Health Board as well as the State Parks and Recreation Board. She was a Founding and Charter Member of Utah State Heritage Foundation. Her first husband Vernon C. Brown (1912–1955)."Obituary: Helen Brown Romney", Deseret News. February 18, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
Vernon B. Romney (1924–2013), son of Vernon C. and first cousin of George W., served two terms as Attorney General of the State of Utah from 1969 to 1976. He was defeated in a 1976 bid for governor. He was married to Patricia (Pingree) Romney.
Keith Bradford Romney (1929–2015) was a son of Vernon Romney. In 1960, the first condominium in the continental United States was built in Salt Lake City, Utah. The legal counsel for the project, Keith B. Romney is also credited with authoring the Utah Condominium Act of 1960. Romney also played an advisory role in the creation of condominium legislation with every other legislature in the U.S. Business Week hailed Romney as the "Father of Condominiums". He soon after formed a partnership with Don W. Pihl called "Keith Romney Associates", which was widely recognized throughout the 1970s as America's preeminent condominium consulting firm. He was a largest financial supporter his brother, politician Vernon B. Romney.Housing & development reporter, Volume 15. Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Va.). Bureau of National Affairs, 1987. pp. 663, 708.
Miles Archibald Romney (November 9, 1869 – November 28, 1939) was a son of Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hood Hill. After wedding Frances Turley in 1889, he married three sisters, Lily, Elizabeth and Emily Burrell, from 1898 to 1909.Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage. B. Carmon Hardy. University of Illinois Press, 1992. . Appendix at p. 394, #162.
Keith Romney (1913–2003), son of Miles, was automobile dealer and LDS Church branch president in Las Cruces, New Mexico 1941–1950. He was a member of the El Paso Stake Presidency from 1952 to 1962, bishop of the Las Cruces Ward 1962–65, mission president of the West Spanish American Mission in Los Angeles, California between 1965–67, and president of the Southeast Mexican Mission, Vera Cruz, Mexico from 1967–69. He was Stake Patriarch in August 1974 and member of Honorary Spanish Society at New Mexico State University, receiving the Master M Men award in 1972.Mormon polygamous families: life in the principle. Jessie L. Embry. University of Utah Press, 1987. , 9780874802771. pp. 125, 144.
Gaskell Romney (1871–1955) was born in St. George, Utah, to Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hood Hill. He married Anna Amelia Pratt in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, on February 20, 1895. He was the father of six sons and one daughter: Maurice, Douglas, Miles Pratt Romney, George W. Romney, Lawrence and Charles, and daughter Meryl who married Lavell G. Ward of Bloomington, Idaho. Gaskell would be a candidate for County Commissioner 1931 as a Republican. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 7, 1955, and is buried Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in the city."Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree", FOX News. February 24, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
Anna Amelia (Pratt) Romney's parents were Helaman Pratt and Anna Johanna Dorothy Wilcken, a daughter of Charles Henry Wilcken, both of whom had been born in Schleswig-Holstein. Pratt married Gaskell Romney on February 20, 1895, in the Mormon colonies in Mexico and was the mother of George W. Romney. George W. Romney (Mexico, 1907–1995) was the CEO of American Motors Corporation between 1954 and 1962 and Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. Romney was a U.S. presidential candidate in 1968 and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development between 1969–1973. He was a great-grandson of Parley P. Pratt.
Lenore Romney (1909–1998) was married to George W. Romney and is the mother of Mitt Romney. She was a daughter of Harold Arundel LaFount, and was a Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Michigan in 1970.
Mitt Romney (b. 1947), son of George W., was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and a U.S. presidential candidate in 2008 and 2012, and was the junior United States senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025. He was LDS Church bishop in Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1982 to 1985 and LDS Church stake president in Boston from 1985 to 1994, and in 1995 helped facilitate permission for the LDS Church to build the Boston Massachusetts Temple in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Ann Romney (b. 1949) is married to Mitt Romney and from 2003 to 2007 was First Lady of Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Edward Roderick Davies.
Tagg Romney (b. 1970), son of Mitt and Ann, has worked as the head of marketing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is a graduate of BYU and Harvard."A Mormon in the White House?: 10 things every American should know about Mitt Romney", Hugh Hewitt. Regnery Publishing, March 25, 2007. , 9781596985025. p. 82. Tagg has been a partner in the private equity firm Solamere Capital.Ties to Romney '08 Helped Fuel an Equity Firm April 30, 2012.
Scott Romney (b. 1941), son of George W., was a trustee at the Michigan State University and candidate for Michigan Attorney General in 1998. He is an attorney at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in Michigan and serves on several boards, including Compuware Corporation.
Ronna Romney (b. 1943) is the former wife of Scott and a radio talk show host and a member of several boards of directors. As a Republican, she was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention from Michigan in 1988 and also member of Republican National Committee from the state that year.Ronna Romney Profile, Forbes. She ran for the Republican nomination in the 1994 U.S. Senate election from Michigan but lost to Spencer Abraham. G. Scott and Mitt endorsed her, but her former father-in-law George W. supported Abraham. She gained the Republican nomination in the 1996 U.S. Senate election from Michigan, but lost in the general election to Carl Levin.
Ronna Romney McDaniel is a daughter of Scott and Ronna. She was chair of the Republican National Committee from 2017 to 2024, having been elected to the post after serving as chair of the Michigan Republican Party.