She attended Latter-day Saints High School, where she had a strong interest in drama. She played the ukulele and was a member of the LDS girls club The Seagulls. Lenore was raised in Salt Lake City, in a house located at Fifteenth South and Ninth East. Her father worked as a headphone manufacturer while her mother was prominent in local charities. The family belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints her father had converted to it in England and then came to the U.S., while her maternal grandmother, Rosetta Berry, had been one of the Mormon handcart pioneers. She had three sisters, one older and two younger. Her father was born in Birmingham in England, and her mother, born in Montpelier, Idaho, was of colonial English ancestry (with more distant French roots). Lenore LaFount was born on November 9, 1908, in Logan, Utah, the second of four daughters of Alma Luella (née Robison 1882–1938) and Harold Arundel Lafount (1880–1952). She returned to volunteer activities during the 1970s, including stints on the boards of the National Center for Voluntary Action and the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and gave speeches to various organizations. Her difficulties continued in the general election, and she lost to Hart by a two-to-one margin. However, she struggled to establish herself as a serious candidate, apart from her husband, and failed to capture the support of conservatives within the party, only narrowly defeating State Senator Robert J. In 1970, she was urged by her husband and state Republican Party officials to run against popular, two-term Democratic incumbent Senator Philip Hart. Although a traditionalist, she was an advocate for the greater involvement of women in business and politics. She was an asset to her husband's 1968 presidential campaign. She was involved with many charitable, volunteer, and cultural organizations, including high positions with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, YWCA, and American Field Services, and also was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she was a life-long member. Lenore Romney was a popular First Lady of Michigan, and was a frequent speaker at events and before civic groups. The couple had four children together she was a stay-at-home mother, eventually living in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, while he became a success in business and politics. Turning down a contract offer with them, she married George Romney in 1931. She studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York, then went to Hollywood, where she became a bit player who appeared in a number of films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She attended the University of Utah and George Washington University, graduating from the latter in 1929. She went to Latter-day Saints High School, where she developed an interest in drama and first met George Romney. Lenore LaFount was born in Logan, Utah, and raised in Salt Lake City. Senator from Utah, a former Governor of Massachusetts, and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Romney, she was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. The wife of businessman and politician George W. (Macomb (Harrison Township, Lake Township, St.Lenore LaFount Romney ( née Lafount November 9, 1908 – July 7, 1998) was an American actress and political figure. (Wayne (Brownstown Township, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile Township, Huron Township, Rockwood, Sumpter Township, Woodhaven)) (Wayne (Belleville, Van Buren Township, Canton Township-excluding eastern slice)) (Wayne (Northville-portion within county, Northville Township, Plymouth, Plymouth Township, east Canton Township, Wayne)) (Wayne (Livonia-excluding southeast tip)) (Wayne (Dearborn Heights-excluding southwest tip, Livonia-southeast tip, Redford Township)) (Wayne (north Allen Park, Dearborn Heights-southwest tip, Garden City, Inkster)) (Wayne (Dearborn-excluding northeast tip)) (Wayne (Ecorse, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, south Allen Park)) (Wayne (Riverview, Southgate, Trenton, Wyandotte)) (Wayne (north Detroit, Highland Park, Hamtramck)) (Wayne (Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Township, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Park, far east Detroit)) Candidates Impact of term limits ĭue to term limit provisions in Michigan's Constitution, 54 candidates were unable to seek re-election to the House, resulting in the largest turnover in the lower chamber since the adoption of term limits in 1992.
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