Richard Harold Headlee was an American businessman and politician from Michigan.
19 Facts About Richard Headlee
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Richard Headlee was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Michigan in the 1982 election.
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Richard Headlee was known as the author of the Headlee Amendment, which requires voters' approval for many tax increases in Michigan.
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Headlee was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to William Clark and Violet Lunn Headlee and grew up in Richfield, Utah.
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Richard Headlee then came to Bountiful, Utah, where he joined the Jaycees and eventually became its national president in 1963.
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In 1966, Richard Headlee served as Romney's campaign manager and the same year he was baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was sealed to his wife, a lifelong church member, and his children in 1967 in the Salt Lake Temple.
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Richard Headlee continued working in various positions largely on Romney's presidential campaign until 1968.
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In 1978, Richard Headlee organized the effort that brought about the Richard Headlee Amendment.
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Richard Headlee had come to the leadership of this group shortly after their attempt to pass a tax limiting provision failed in 1976.
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Richard Headlee was The Republican candidate for governor of Michigan in 1982, he lost to James Blanchard.
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In 1985 Richard Headlee was a key figure in recruiting Wayne County Executive Bill Lucas to be a Republican.
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Richard Headlee continued to work with tax limitation groups throughout the 1980s.
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Richard Headlee was one of the advocates of the successful 1992 drive to enact term limits for all state level elected officials in Michigan, both in the executive and the legislative branch.
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Richard Headlee became affiliated with Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance that year.
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Richard Headlee became president and CEO of Alexander Hamilton Life in 1972.
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In 1987, Richard Headlee was the recipient of a heart transplant from a victim of a motorcycle accident in Texas.
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Richard Headlee funded the creation by Dennis Smith and placement of the "Signing of the Constitution" statues in the US embassies in Moscow and London in 1988.
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Richard Headlee died at his home in Cedar Hills, Utah, in 2004.
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In 1949 Richard Headlee married his high school sweetheart, Mary Elaine Mendenhall.