• On the 12th of March 1947, Willard Mitt Romney was born
in Detroit, Michigan to George W. Romney and Lenore Romney. 

• He was named after his father's best friend and hotel
magnate, J Willard Marriott and he owes his middle name to his
father'?s cousin Milton 'Mitt' Romney, a former Chicago Bears
quarterback.

• Romney's illustrious father is a former three-term
Governor of Michigan, Chairman of American Motors and a 1968
presidential candidate while his mother is a 1970 Michigan U.S
Senatorial candidate.

• Though he was born into a humble background, Romney's
father became a wealthy national figure by successfully hauling
American Motors from the depths of bankruptcy.

• The Romneys were one of the few leading families of the
Mormon faith in middle-class America and for nearly a century,
adherents to the Mormon Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints
were regarded as polygamous outlaws.

• Romney's great-great-grandfather, Miles Romney, was an
architect in England who sacrificed his career to follow the
steps of the Mormons, trek the Midwest and settle with his family
in Utah. 

• His great-grandfather was among those Mormons who fled
to Mexico to start their own community where plural marriage
continued to be practiced.

• 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 up to two generations.
		

• 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.