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Ann Lois Romney (née Davies; born April 16, 1949) is the wife of American businessman and politician Mitt Romney, who was the Republican nominee in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. From 2003 to 2007 she was First Lady of Massachusetts while her husband served as governor of the state. She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and attended the private Kingswood School there, where she dated Mitt Romney. She converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1966. She attended Brigham Young University (BYU), married Mitt Romney in 1969, and in 1975 received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French. As First Lady of Massachusetts, she served as the governor's liaison for federal faith-based initiatives. She was involved in a number of children's charities, including Operation Kids, and was an active participant in her husband's 2008 presidential run as well as the 2012 one. Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998 and has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations. In one of those activities, equestrianism, she has consequently received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level and competed professionally in Grand Prix as well. In 2008, she was also diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, a non-invasive type of breast cancer. She underwent a lumpectomy in December of the same year and has since been cancer-free. She and husband Mitt have five sons, born between 1970 and 1981, and twenty-two grandchildren. == Early life == Born Ann Lois Davies in Detroit on April 16, 1949, she was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by parents Edward Roderick Davies and Lois Davies.〔 She has two brothers.〔 Her father, originally from Caerau near Maesteg, Wales, was a self-made businessman who in 1946 co-founded Jered Industries, a maker of heavy machinery for marine use located in Troy, Michigan.〔〔〔 Also available as ("Growing up in the Detroit area, Mitt Romney learned to pick himself up after falling down" ), ''Toledo Blade'', February 12, 2012.〕 He had also held the part-time position of Mayor of Bloomfield Hills.〔〔 Raised in the Welsh Congregationalists, he had become strongly opposed to all organized religion, although on her request the family very occasionally attended church, and she nominally identified as an Episcopalian.〔("Ann Romney: You Gotta Have Faith" ), ABC News, June 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-18.〕 At times, she helped out at her father's plant. Ann Davies knew of Mitt Romney since elementary school.〔 She went to the private Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, which was the sister school to the all-boys Cranbrook School that he attended.〔 The two were re-introduced and began dating in March 1965;〔 they informally agreed to marriage after his senior prom in June 1965.〔〔 Excerpts from November 2006 speech.〕 While he was attending Stanford University for a year and then was away starting two-and-a-half years of Mormon missionary duty in France, she decided on her own〔 to convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during 1966.〔 In doing so she accepted the guidance of Mitt's father George Romney, the Governor of Michigan.〔 George included her in Romney family events while Mitt was away;〔 she appreciated his treating her as an equal and picked him to baptize her.〔 Ann graduated from high school in 1967 and began attending Brigham Young University (BYU).〔 She also spent a semester at the University of Grenoble in France during her freshman year and was there during the 1968 Winter Olympics.〔 The Mormon missionary rules allowed her only two brief visits with Mitt and very rare telephone calls with him.〔 She involved herself in campus life at BYU, spending several days a week as a volunteer in the academic affairs office.〔 While at BYU, she dated future business academic Kim S. Cameron.〔〔 She sent Mitt a "Dear John letter" of sorts, while Mitt sent letters back imploring her to wait for him.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Romney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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