Item Detail
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25949
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1
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English
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When Mormonism Mattered Less in Presidential Politics : George Romney's 1968 Window of Possibilities
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Journal of Mormon History
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Summer 2013
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39
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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96-130
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George Romney was born in the Mormon colonies of Chihuahua, Mexico, the grandson of a polygamist. Five decades later, his face was on the cover of Time magazine. He won the governorship of Michigan in 1962, 1964, and 1966. He had become, in all likelihood, the most publicly recognizable Mormon since Brigham Young. And for much of 1967, national polling put him at or near the top of a heap of presidential hopefuls.
Yet in a matter of only a few weeks in late 1967, George Romney went from front-runner to also-ran. On the eve of the first presidential primary in early 1968, he abruptly ended his campaign. It seemed only natural that George Romney's fellow Mormons had to ask, Did his religion sink his hopes? [From the article]
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