• In 1965, Romney graduated with honors from the Cranbrook
School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
 
• He then joined Brigham Young University where he
graduated in 1971 as valedictorian, earning his Bachelor of Arts
degree summa cum laude in English.
 
• His next stop was Stanford University where he studied
for two quarters and later served for thirty months in France as
a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
 
• In 1975, Romney graduated from a prestigious joint Juris
Doctor / Master of Business Administration program coordinated
between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
 
• Romney graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School
and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five
percent of his business school class.
 
• After completing his joint degree in law and business at
Harvard University, Romney remained in Massachusetts and began
his career as a businessman in Boston Consulting Group.
 
• Like his father, Romney is credited with saving the
management consulting company, Bain & Company from a financial
collapse. He took over as chief executive officer in 1990 and
restructured the firm's employee stock-ownership plan,
real-estate deals and bank loans, while increasing fiscal
transparency.
 
• In 1998, Romney left Bain Capital to serve as the
President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games
Organizing Committee.
 
• Romney later moved to Utah and worked his magic on the
2002 Winter Olympics, positioning himself to run for the position
of Governor of Massachusetts as a results-oriented pragmatist.
		

• Mike Huckabee attended Hope High School, in Hope,
Arkansas

• In 1973, Huckabee attended Ouachita Baptist University
in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and graduated magna cum laude,
completing his four-year bachelor's degree in Religion in just
two-and-a-half years.
 
• Following his graduation, he enrolled at the
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas
for one academic year after which he had to drop out of seminary
in order to take up a job in Christian broadcasting.
 
• He worked for several years for televangelist James
Robinson and later served as a minister at Baptist churches in
Pine Bluff and Texarkana, Arkansas, and as President of two
Christian TV operations.
 
• Huckabee has two honorary doctoral degrees: the Doctor
of Humane Letters received from John Brown University in 1991 and
the Doctor of Laws from Ouachita Baptist University in 1992.
 
• This Pastor-turned-Politician is also an Honorary Member
of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
 
• While in college, Huckabee worked during the week as a
rock 'n roll DJ at the local Radio station in Hope and then spent
the weekends preaching at a Baptist Church.
 
• As a young man, Huckabee dreamed of a career in media or
public service. It was by accident that he became a pastor for 12
years.  Huckabee remembers, "In 1980, a church in Arkansas asked
me to come and speak for them, and I did. Then they asked me to
come back and speak again, and I did. And after about four
months, they said, why don't you just stay? And that's how I
became a pastor"