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While Romney’s documented ancestry does not quite reach the
heights of the family legend, which claimed that they are
descendants of the fourth-century dragon slayer, St. George (the
patron saint of England), it is still an impressive one, with
some of the most celebrated thinkers (maternal great-grandfather,
Parley Parker Pratt, was one of the chief literary defenders of
Mormonism), famed fighters (Carl Heinrich, a member of the
Prussian army, and later, Utah’s militia) and natural leaders
(Miles Romney, who founded and administered the Mormon sanctuary
in Mexico in the 19th century) of post-Independence America.
The family can trace their lineage to modern England, Scotland
and Germany. Miles Park Romney, Mitt’s great-great grandfather
(paternal), hails from Lancashire, England, while on the maternal
side, Archibald Newell Hill was a resident of Renfrew, Scotland.
His great-great grandfather, the legendary Prussian soldier, Carl
Heinrich, was a native of Holstein, Germany.
Romney's family tree is rife with polygamists on the paternal
side, though there is no indication of polygamy on the maternal
side of his family. According to a research by The Salt Lake
Tribune, Romney's ancestry harbors six polygamous men with
forty-one wives. Romney, however, is a confirmed monogamist and
polygamy has been absent in his family background for more than
two generations.
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• On the 24th of August 1955, Michael Dale 'Mike' Huckabee was
born to Dorsey Wiles Huckabee and May Elder in the town of Hope,
Arkansas, the same place where Bill Clinton was born nine years
later.
• Huckabee's father held two jobs, as a fire-fighter and car
mechanic while his mother worked as a clerk in a local gas
company to support the four-member family.
• Huckabee once said about his dad, "he was one of those guys
who lifted things, who worked with his hands, and got his hands
real dirty. I think he had grime and grease all over them as long
as he lived."
• Remembering and oft quoting the tiny rental house the family
lived in, Huckabee says, "I am a generation away from abject
poverty and I know it."
• Huckabee's mother, May Elder, was the oldest of seven
children who had no other option but to quit school and take care
of her younger siblings while her parents toiled hard, day and
night.
• Being born to a blue-collar family, Huckabee was the first
male in his entire family lineage to have graduated from high
school. He often says, "My father had never finished high school,
nor his father, nor his."
• On setting a new standard in his family, Huckabee's father is
said to have chuckled, "Son, don't look too far up the family
tree. There are some things there that might embarrass you."
• Though Huckabee lacked in pedigree, his humble Southern roots
and pastoral credentials gave him a better understanding of the
problems of the working class in America.
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