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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney's and Polygamy as shown by the US Census...
Wife and Wife???
ETA: Gaskill who was 8, is Willard's grandfather.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Now for the bonus question, "How many mother-in-laws did he have?"
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)So do I. One census shows one of my g-g-g-grandfathers with his TEN wives and all the attendant children, too. Because it was before UT was a state, it showed them as wives (rather than later on when they would report plural wives as sisters or aunts or whatever, or they would set them up in a separate house on the property so you would see clusters of homes with women and kids and no adult male.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Line #19 is Willard's father.
Kali
(55,019 posts)most all long time mormon families have polygamy in the background
plenty wrong with the religion (all religions) but this past practice is not really relevant to the candidate or the election and only would be if there was some attempt at denial or cover-up
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)This candidate's religion and its and his family's polygamous past are an issue because he has made it an issue.
Kali
(55,019 posts)although I am sure there will be the usual god-related convoluted "explanation" - god's etch-a-sketch as it were
still, I don't think he has ever tried to hide his family's past
Casandia
(654 posts)several people born in the UK, Canada, etc
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Then let Mitt explain it.