QUESTIONS: 1. What governor is the only current U.S. governor both of whose parents ran for political office? 2. The grandfathers of two present governors served together in the U.S. Senate? Who are the governors? 3. What two current governors had a father who ran for President? 4. What two governors are the children of former governors? 5. What three present governors had fathers who served in the House together? ANSWERS: 1. Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, whose father George was governor of Michigan from 1962-69 and mother Lenore was the Republican nominee for the Senate from Michigan in 1970. 2. Republican Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, whose grandfather Prescott Bush was Republican senator from Connecticut from 1952-62, and Gov. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, whose grandfather Robert was Republican senator from Ohio from 1938-53. 3. Romney, whose father George sought the Republican nomination for President in 1968, and Bush, whose father George was President from 1988-92. 4. Romney and Kansas Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, whose father John Gilligan was Democratic governor of Ohio from 1970-74. 5. Bush, whose father George was a Republican House member from Texas from 1966-70, Taft, whose father Robert was a Republican House member from Ohio from 1962-64 and 1966-70, and Sebelius, whose father John Gilligan was a Democratic House member from Ohio from 1964-68.
