Roy Romer

Roy Rudolf Romer is an American politician who served as the 39th governor of Colorado from 1987 to 1999, and subsequently as the Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2000 to 2006. Romer was a member of the Democratic Party. He is the father of Paul Romer, a recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Since the death of George Ariyoshi in April 2026, he is the oldest living former governor of any U.S. state and is the last living former American governor born in the 1920s.