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George H W Bush
Former US President George
H.W. Bush has died at age 94 in Houston, according to his spokesperson
George H W Bush Wiki/Biography
(June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American
politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to
1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President
of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As a member of the Republican Party, he
had previously been a Congressman, Ambassador and Director of Central
Intelligence. During his career in public service, he was known simply as
George Bush; since 2001, he has often been referred to as "George H. W.
Bush", "Bush 41", or "George Bush Sr." in order to
distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the
United States.
George H W Bush Age
A scion of the Bush family, he was born in Milton,
Massachusetts, to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack
on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Bush postponed his university studies,
enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator
in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until September 1945, then attended
Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas, where
he entered the oil business and became a millionaire by the age of 40 in 1964.
Soon after founding his own oil company, Bush became involved in politics. He
was defeated in his first election, for the U.S. Senate in 1964 but won
election to the House of Representatives from Texas' 7th district in 1966.
George H W Bush vice president
He was re-elected in 1968 and was defeated for election to
the Senate again in 1970. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Bush as
Ambassador to the United Nations, and in 1973, Bush became the Chairman of the
Republican National Committee. The following year, President Gerald Ford
appointed Bush as the ambassador to China and later reassigned Bush to the
position of Director of Central Intelligence. Bush ran for president in 1980
but was defeated in the Republican primary by Ronald Reagan. Reagan chose Bush
as his running mate, and Bush became vice president after the Reagan–Bush
ticket won the 1980 election. During his eight-year tenure as vice president,
Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting the War on
Drugs.
George H W Bush Early life and career
Bush left office in 1993. His presidential library was
dedicated in 1997, and he was active—often alongside Bill Clinton—in various
humanitarian activities. With George W. Bush's victory in the 2000 presidential
election, Bush and his son became the second father–son pair to serve as president,
following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Bush's second son, Jeb Bush, served
as the 43rd Governor of Florida and sought the Republican presidential
nomination in 2016.
Bush died on November 30, 2018, at the age of 94. At the
time of his death, Bush was the longest-lived American president in history,
followed closely by Jimmy Carter, who was born a few months later.
George H W Bush Education
George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in
Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924, to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy
(Walker) Bush. The Bush family moved from Milton to Greenwich, Connecticut,
shortly after his birth. Growing up, he used the nickname "Poppy".
Bush began his formal education at the Greenwich Country Day
School in Greenwich. Beginning in 1938, he attended Phillips Academy in
Andover, Massachusetts, where he held a number of leadership positions that
included president of the senior class, secretary of the student council,
president of the community fund-raising group, a member of the editorial board
of the school newspaper, and captain of both the varsity baseball and soccer
teams. George Walker Bush Family and personal life
Bush was initially engaged to Cathryn Lee Wolfman in 1967,
but the engagement eventually fizzled out. Bush and Wolfman remained on good
terms after the end of the relationship. While Bush was at a backyard barbecue
in 1977, friends introduced him to Laura Welch, a schoolteacher and librarian. After
a three-month courtship, she accepted his marriage proposal and they wed on November
5 of that year.
George H W Bush Wife
When Bush was still in the Navy, he married Barbara Pierce
(1925–2018) in Rye, New York on January 6, 1945. The marriage produced six
children: George W. (b. 1946), Robin (1949–1953), Jeb (b. 1953), Neil (b.
1955), Marvin (b. 1956), and Doro (b. 1959). At the time of his wife's death on
April 17, 2018, George H. W. had been married to Barbara for 73 years; theirs
was the longest presidential marriage in American history. They had become the
longest-married presidential couple in 2000 when their marriage surpassed the
54-year (1764–1818) marriage of John and Abigail Adams.
After Bush received
his military discharge, he enrolled at Yale University. He earned an
undergraduate degree in economics on an accelerated program that enabled him to
graduate in two and a half years, rather than the usual four. He was a member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was elected its president. He also
captained the Yale baseball team and played in the first two College World
Series as a left-handed first baseman. Bush was the team captain during his
senior year in 1948, and he met Babe Ruth before a game; the event took place
only weeks before Ruth's death. Like his father, he was also a member of the
Yale cheerleading squad. Late in his junior year, he was initiated into the
Skull and Bones secret society; his father Prescott Bush had been initiated
into the same society in 1917. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa when he
graduated from Yale in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.
