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Harold Arundel Lafount (January 5, 1880 – October 21, 1952) was an American businessman who served on the Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934. He was the father of Lenore Romney; the father-in-law of businessman and politician George W. Romney; and the maternal grandfather of businessman and politician Mitt Romney .
When Harold Arundel Lafount was born on 5 January 1880, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, his father, Robert Arthur La Fount, was 23 and his mother, Emily Ethel Hewitt, was 19. He married Alma Luella Robison on 28 October 1903, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
Harold Arundel LaFount served as Secretary of the Navy. He served in this capacity in the cabinet of President Warren G. Harding 1921-1923, and after Harding's death, was retained in this cabinet position by President Calvin Coolidge from 1923-1929.
Harold Arundel Lafount was an American businessman who served on the Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934. He was the father of Lenore Romney; the father-in-law of businessman and politician George W. Romney; and the maternal grandfather of businessman and politician Mitt Romney.
When Elsie Evelyn Lafount was born on 24 April 1906, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Harold Arundel Lafount, was 26 and her mother, Alma Luella Robison, was 23. She married Joseph Norman Dotson on 3 June 1927, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
Research genealogy for Harold Arundel LaFount of Birmington, Warwickshire, England, as well as other members of the LaFount family, on Ancestry®.
Harold Lafount sitting with one leg crossed next to Herbert Pettey who is standing. Text from negative sleeve: LAFOUNT, HAROLD A. Federal Radio Commissioner. Handwritten on negative: L to R--Harold A. Lafount, Herbert Pettey
