Chief Executives in the Automobile Industry: Walter Chrysler, George W. Romney, Lee Iacocca, Alan Mulally, Roy Abernethy, Carlos Ghosn

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Walter Chrysler, George W. Romney, Lee Iacocca, Alan Mulally, Roy Abernethy, Carlos Ghosn, William Clay Ford, Jr., Franz Josef Popp, Robert B. Evans, Rick Wagoner, Sergio Marchionne, Ferdinand Piech, Edward Whitacre, Jr., Roy D. Chapin, Jr., George W. Mason, Frederick Henderson, Shoichiro Toyoda, Charles Warren Nash, Jacques Nasser, Peter Schutz, Katsuhiko Kawasoe, Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, Martin Winterkorn, A. E. Barit, Gerald C. Meyers, Richard E. Cross, Eberhard von Kuenheim, Carl-Peter Forster, Norbert Reithofer, Helmut Panke, Matthias Muller, Rupert Stadler. Excerpt: George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 - July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He is the father of former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and the husband of former Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney. Romney was born to American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to move back to the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled during the Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served as a Mormon missionary in England and Scotland, and attended two universities in the U.S. but did not graduate from either. In 1939 he moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, where he served as the chief spokesperson for the automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative arrangement in which companies could share production improvements. He joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948, and became chairman and ...