where is ann romney from?
Metro Detroit
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 Romney joined in her husband 's campaign in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election from the start , and nominated him at the state party convention . A commercial entitled " Mitt and Ann " , highlighting their romance and marriage , began the campaign 's television advertising . She avoided media interviews like the one that plagued her in 1994 , but was a force behind the scenes during the eventually successful campaign . 

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 Ann and Mitt Romney have five sons , born between 1970 and 1981 , and twenty @-@ three grandchildren . 

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 George Romney had first moved to Washington , D.C. , in 1929 in order to remain near Lenore Lafount following her father 's appointment to the FRC . They married in 1931 . Social connections through the Lafounts enabled George to gain greater visibility in Washington business and political circles during the 1930s . By the late 1940s , Harold Lafount had been so impressed with his son @-@ in @-@ law that he asked lawyers to investigate whether the latter 's Mexican birth would still make him eligible to run for president ; they reported in the affirmative . 

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 Romney 's parents , Gaskell Romney ( 1871 – 1955 ) and Anna Amelia Pratt ( 1876 – 1926 ) , were United States citizens and natives of the Territory of Utah . They married in 1895 in Mexico and lived in Colonia Dublán in Galeana in the state of Chihuahua ( one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico ) , where George was born on July 8 , 1907 . They practiced monogamy ( polygamy having been abolished by the 1890 Manifesto , although it persisted in places , especially Mexico ) . George had three older brothers , two younger brothers , and a younger sister . Gaskell Romney was a successful carpenter , house builder , and farmer who headed the most prosperous family in the colony , which was situated in an agricultural valley below the Sierra Madre Occidental . The family chose U.S. citizenship for their children , including George . 

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 Romney has three elder siblings ; Margo , Jane , and Scott ( Mitt followed them after a gap of nearly six years ) . His parents named him after a family friend , businessman J. Willard Marriott , and his father 's cousin , Milton " Mitt " Romney , a former quarterback for the Chicago Bears . Romney was referred to as " Billy " until kindergarten , when he indicated a preference for " Mitt " . In 1953 , the family moved from Detroit to the affluent suburb of Bloomfield Hills . His father became the chairman and CEO of American Motors the following year , soon helping the company avoid bankruptcy and return to profitability . By 1959 , his father had become a nationally known figure in print and on television , and the youngster idolized him . 
