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| Order: | 41st President |
| Term of Office: | January 20, 1989– January 20, 1993 |
| Predecessor: | Ronald W. Reagan |
| Successor: | William J. Clinton |
| Date of Birth: | Thursday, June 12, 1924 |
| Place of Birth: | Milton, Massachusetts |
| First Lady: | Barbara Bush |
| Profession: | businessman |
| Political Party: | Republican |
| Vice President: | J. Danforth QuayleOrder 44th Vice President Term of Office January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993 Followed George H. Bush Succeeded by Al Gore Date of Birth February 4, 1947 Place of Birth Indianapolis, Indiana Wife Marilyn Tucker Profession Publisher, Politician Political Part |
| Order: | 43rd Vice President |
| Term of Office: | January 20, 1989– January 20, 1993 |
| Predecessor: | Walter F. MondaleWalter F. Mondale Order 42nd Vice President Term of Office January 20, 1977 January 20, 1981 Followed Nelson Rockefeller Succeeded by George H. Bush Date of Birth January 5, 1928 Place of Birth Ceylon, Minn. Wife Joan Adams Profession Lawyer Political Par |
| Successor: | J. Danforth QuayleOrder 44th Vice President Term of Office January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993 Followed George H. Bush Succeeded by Al Gore Date of Birth February 4, 1947 Place of Birth Indianapolis, Indiana Wife Marilyn Tucker Profession Publisher, Politician Political Part |
| PresidentThe President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. Under the U. Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and commander in chief of the armed forces. Because of the superpower status of th: | Ronald W. Reagan |
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States ( 1989– 1993). Previously, he had served as ambassador to the United Nations ( 1971– 1973), director of the CIA 1976– 1977, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States under President Ronald Reagan ( 1981– 1989).
His son, George W. Bush, is the 43rd President of the United States.
George Herbert Walker Bush was born to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker. His father served as a Senator from Connecticut and was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman. He was the first President to have two middle names, and the first President to be born in June. Now there are Presidential birthdays in each of the 12 months of the year.
George Bush met Babe Ruth as a student at Yale. George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1942, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team, and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A.U.V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas" – Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth". His roommate at the boarding school was a young man named Edward G. Hooker. It was at Phillips Academy that Bush learned of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and after graduating in June, 1942, he joined the U.S. Navy.
He was a naval aviator during World War II, the youngest ever at that time. Awards and decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. While serving in the Pacific Theater as a torpedo bomber pilot, he was also shot down by Japanese antiaircraft fire and was rescued from the water by the submarine USS Finback.
After the War he attended Yale University where he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and was inducted into the Skull and Bones secret society, helping him to build friendships and political support. Joining the Skull and Bones a year after him at Bush's request was William Sloane Coffin, a fellow classmate from the Phillips Academy. They would remain friends and, at times, enemies, throughout their lives, though Coffin became a notable anti-war activist of the political left.
He married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945. Their marriage produced 6 children: George W., Pauline Robinson "Robin" ( December 20, 1949– October 11, 1953, died of leukemia); John (Jeb); Neil; Marvin; and Dorothy Walker ( August 18, 1959—). The family has built on his and his father's political successes, with his son George W. Bush's Governorship of Texas and subsequent election as president, and his son Jeb Bush's election as Governor of Florida. The Bush political dynasty has been compared to that of John Adams and the Kennedy family. Bush's maternal grandfather was George Herbert Walker Sr. , the founder of G.H. Walker & Co. Bush's uncle George Herbert Walker Jr. is the current head of the company. Bush's first cousin George Herbert Walker III is the U.S. ambassador to Hungary.
Bush ventured into the Texas oil business after the war with mixed results. He secured a position with Dresser through his father's investment banking relationship with the company. His son, Neil Mallon Bush, is named after his employer at Dresser, Neil Mallon, a close family friend. Dresser, decades later, merged with Halliburton, whose former CEOs include Dick Cheney, George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense during the Gulf War and now (2004) Vice President of the United States and former George W. Bush campaign manager.
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