Porter Romney



Porter Howard Romney was an American politician and member of the Romney family who served as a Senator from Utah from 2077 to 2095. Prior to serving in politics, Romney was the owner of a San Diego construction company he founded, called Porter Romney Construction, Inc.

Early life and education
Porter Romney was born in Rancho Santa Fe, California, a suburb of San Diego, on 12 February 2036. His Mormon family relocated to Utah when he was 7 years old, in 2043. He attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and graduated with a BA in Business in 2060.

Political career
Romney changed his political affiliation from Republican to Democratic in 2065, due to the Republican Party's increasingly left-wing stances on economic issues. Following in the footsteps of many members of the Romney family, Porter Romney ran for U.S. Senate in Utah in 2076, after Chris J. Phillips announced his retirement. He was elected with 59% of the vote, a strong showing for a Democrat in the state at that time. He gained a reputation as one of the most socially conservative members of the United States Congress, and was particularly notorious for his anti-LGBTQ+ views (despite the fact that he was bisexual.) He was re-elected with a plurality of 48% of the vote in 2082, and began exploring a run for the presidency shortly after. He won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2084, and received 8.4% of the vote in the election; the coalition he formed was very different from Elizabeth Betty, the 2080 Democratic nominee, due to his very socially conservative views. He won the popular vote in his home state of Utah and also performed strongly in Idaho, another state with a significant Mormon population. After the election, he was a vocal critic of president Annie Brown's policies, particularly on economic and election reform issues. He was re-elected to a third term in the Senate in 2088, by a very narrow margin of 0.27%, even as president Annie Brown won the state by a nearly 10% margin in the concurrent presidential election. After his approval rating among Utahns dipped in the early 2090s, Romney announced he would not seek re-election to the United States Senate and left office in 2095, being succeeded by Mackenzie McGaha.

Later life and death
Romney continued to be popular among social conservatives in the U.S. later into his life. Porter and his wife Amelia died in the Nogales nuclear war on 15 October 2134, which is estimated to have also killed an additional 60-80 million people, due to the drop of a nuclear bomb only 5 miles (8 km) from his home in West Jordan, Utah. His remains were never found.

Personal life
Porter Romney was bisexual, but he viewed attraction to men as an urge he had to resist, and promoted this ideal in his political career. He married his wife, Amelia Romney, in 2059, when they were attending BYU. They had 7 children together.