George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States, born in Connecticut in 1946. He attended Yale and Harvard, served in the Texas Air National Guard, and worked in the oil industry before entering politics. He was governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and won the presidency in 2000 and 2004.
George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He is the son of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and Barbara Bush, the former First Lady. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1946, and is one of six children, five of whom are currently alive. George W. Bush is married to Laura Bush, his wife since 1977, and together they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna Bush.
George W. Bush comes from a fairly wealthy Connecticut political family. His grandfather served as a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963, a political career he built after an early start as an executive banker on Wall Street. George W. Bush attended Kinkaid School in his early years and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for his high school education. He went on to study history at Yale, where he was famously a member of the secret society of the skull and bones.
After school, George W. Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, where he served until 1973. After his discharge, George W. Bush went to Harvard University, where he received an MBA. In 1978, Bush ran for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Texas’s 19th district. He lost the election to Kent Hance by 6,000 votes.
George W. Bush then took a break from politics, focusing on the oil industry. He founded the Arbusto Energy company, which later became Bush Exploration, to engage in oil exploration in the state of Texas. In 1984 Bush Exploration merged with Spectrum 7 and George W. Bush became president of the company.
In 1988, George W. Bush moved to Washington, DC to assist his father, George HW Bush, in his bid for president. He campaigned strongly for his father across the nation and acted as a surrogate campaign while his father was in the running. His father won the election and George W. Bush turned more attention to his political career.
In 1994, George W. Bush declared his candidacy for governor of Texas, while his brother, Jeb Bush, ran for governor of Florida. Bush was up against a popular incumbent Democrat, Ann Richards, whom he still beat with a healthy 52% of the vote. George W. Bush was an incredibly popular governor, regaining his office in 1998 to become the first Texas governor to be elected to back-to-back terms. Some hallmarks of his governorship include providing government funding for faith groups offering drug and alcohol prevention programs, domestic violence programs and general education programs, and pushing through a two billion dollar tax cut for the state.
In 2000, George W. Bush announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. He beat out a strong field of contenders, most notably John McCain, to snag the Republican nomination. In one of the closest elections in US history, and amid numerous allegations of voter fraud, George W. Bush won the presidency and became the 43rd president of the United States. In 2004, he won re-election against Democratic nominee John Kerry in another close election.
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