George Bush

The first sitting Vice President of the United States to be elected President since Martin van Buren in 1836. With the exception of Thomas Jefferson, all other sitting vice presidents who rose to the presidency first did so under direct succession, whether or not they subsequently ran for president and were elected to their first term in office.

Prescott Bush (Yale 1917) made his fortune and name as an investment banker on Wall St. , eventually becoming a partner of the white shoe brokerage Brown Bros. Harriman. He was a member of the Yale Corp.

The golfing trophy known as the Walker Cup is named after his grandfather, George Herbert Walker, president of the US Golf Association in 1920, when the matches were initiated.

, who is known as "Bush 43"), was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts, a suburb south of Boston. His parents were Dorothy (Walker) and Prescott Bush, who was then the president of sales for the Stedman Products Co. of South Braintree, Massachusetts.

In 1925, Prescott joined the United States Rubber Co. (New York, NY) as their foreign division manager, necessitating a move to Greenwich, Connecticut.

Chairman William Paley in 1932 by his friend and business partner Averell Harriman, a major Democratic party power-broker.

George Bush was educated at the exclusive Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich, Connecticut before moving on to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he matriculated from 1936 to 1942. At Phillips Andover, he captained the baseball and soccer teams and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A. U. V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas", Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth".

The 41st President of the United States of America, George Herbert Walker Bush (known colloquially as "Bush 41" to distinguish him from his son, George W.

Like his father before him, Bush was on schedule to attend Yale College and would have in the fall of 1942, but for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941 that necessitated the entry of the United States into World War II. Upon his graduation from Phillips Andover, George Bush enlisted in the U. S.

Navy on June 12, 1942, his 18th birthday, with the intent on becoming an aviator. After completing the 10-month naval aviation course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve three days before his nineteenth birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator ever at the time.

Bush, the 43rd president of the U. S.

Most importantly, he achieved a sort of personal vindication when his son, George Walker Bush, defeated Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, and was elected the 43rd President of the United States.

, the principal governing body of Yale University, from 1944 to 1956 and was on the board of directors of the Columbia Broadcasting System (C. B. S. ), after having been introduced to C. B. S.

George Bush married the former Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945, and after he was demobilized, they moved to New Haven, Connecticut so that he could attend Yale, where he proved a fine student and captained the baseball team, which made it to the first College World Series.

They had their first of six children, future President George Walker Bush, two days after the Fourth of July, 1946. In his senior year, George Bush was tapped for the exclusive secret society Skull & Bones, as had been his father (and as his son would be).

Captain of the Yale University baseball team that played in the first College World Series in 1947; Yale lost to the University of California.

Graduated from Yale University in 1948 with a B.A. degree in economics.

His father, Prescott (Yale, 1917), was a senator from Connecticut, 4 November 1952 - 2 January 1963.

One year after his father left the Seante, his son George stood won the Republican nomination to oppose Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, an ally of President 'Lyndon Johnson (I)' (QB), who was on his way to defeating Republican Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in an electoral landslide in 1964. Riding the coat-tails of favorite son Johnson, Yarborough handily won reelection, keeping George Bush in the private sector for two more years.

Good Republican candidates were hard to come by (though John Tower later proved that a Republican could win in the Deep South when he took a Senate seat in 1966).

Bush stood for a House seat in 1966 and won, then won reelection in 1968. In Congress, he established a reputation as a liberal Republican and was known as a supporter of contraception services (his father, Prescott, had been a mainstay of Planned Parenthood).

U.S. Congressional representative from Texas, 3 January 1967 - 3 January 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970.

At the request of President Richard Nixon, Bush gave up his seat voluntarily in 1970 to seek the Senate seat of Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who was a fierce Nixon critic. It was felt that Yaborough's liberalism made him vulnerable to a challenge from the right, and it did; however, it was the right-wing of the Democratic Party. Lloyd Bentsen won the Democratic nomination and, endorsed by Yarborough, beat Bush handily in the November general election.

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 1 March 1971 - 18 January 1973; appointed by Richard Nixon.

Portrayed by Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live (1975). He invited Carvey and his wife to visit the White House.

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 30 January 1976 - 20 January 1977.

Of the five presidents of the United States who served from 1977 to 2009, he was the only one who had not served as a state governor. Jimmy Carter had been governor of Georgia, Ronald Reagan had been governor of California, Bill Clinton had been governor of Arkansas, and his son George W. Bush was governor of Texas. President Barack Obama broke the pattern, becoming the first United States senator since John F. Kennedy to be elected president.

After losing the 1980 Republican nomination to Ronald Reagan, Bush was chosen as Reagan's running mate and elected Vice President of the United States in Reagan's victory over incumbent President Jimmy Carter in November.

Vice president of the United States, 20 January 1981 - 20 January 1989, under President Ronald Reagan.

(Ironically, Bentsen would one day be the running mate of Bush's 1988 rival for the presidency, Michael Dukakis. ) One of the reason for Bush's defeat was that with Yarborough out of the race, Nixon's support for Bush's campaign was only half-hearted. As a payback to Bush, Nixon appointed him Ambassador to the United Nations, and he later served Nixon as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate crisis. Nixon's successor in the Oval Office, Gerald Ford, briefly considered appointing Bush as his replacement as vice president before going with liberal Republican stalwart Nelson Rockefeller, the four-term governor of the State of New York, but Ford eventually appointed Bush as the first American plenipotentiary to Communist China, then later director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In 1988, Bush as vice president was Reagan's heir apparent, and he won the Republican nomination handily, though personally he was not very popular. Bush was perceived as "weak" due to his social liberalism, which included support for abortion rights and contraception. As a "Rockefeller Republican" (that is, an Eastern Establishment pro-business Republican who is moderate or liberal on social issues), Bush, unlike Reagan, was out-of-step in an increasingly conservative party dominated by voters from the South and West. The well-educated, thoughtful Bush, according to Reagan biographer Edmund Morris, was a genuinely nice and gracious person, and more importantly: sincere. However, he was perceived as not standing for anything, at least not in the stark black & white terms that had inspired the conservative if not reactionary Republican Party faithful during the two terms of the "Great Communicator". As president, Bush saw the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he soared to unprecedented levels of public approval after his firm handling of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait pushed the Iraqi army out of the invaded kingdom with a minimum amount of U. S. casualties.

Forty-first president of the United States of America, 20 January 1989 - 20 January 1993.

While attending Yale and captaining the baseball team, Bush met and was photographed with the legendary Babe Ruth. In 1991, U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly highlighted a baseball card Bush had taken from this period. Collectors were bidding for its value being near the end of his Office term.

However, his popularity plummeted by the time the campaign rolled around in 1992 due to his seeming inability to cope with a recession caused by economic dislocations linked to the end of the Cold War. After the presidency, George Bush prospered financially as a corporate speaker, reportedly making as much as $10 million from The Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Bush's business ventures through the Carlyle Group, a private equity fund with close ties to the government of Saudi Arabia, have proved very remunerative.

Like his wife, Barbara Bush, he had had a building in Houston renamed in his honor. Houston Intercontinental Airport was renamed Bush Intercontinental Airport in 1997, while his son was governor of Texas. The Cypress Creek Library was remodeled and renamed the Barbara Bush Library in 2003.

Son, George W. Bush, became the 43rd President-elect, on December 13, 2000, 36 days after Election Day, following legal battles over results in Florida. George W. is the second U.S. president's son to be elected to the office, after John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams.

In the twilight of his years, comfortably retired from the political wars, Bush teamed with fellow ex-President Bill Clinton for a uniquely close relationship in which the two jointly led campaigns to help the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2005 devastation of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina via private sector fund-raising.

Using his father's connections and $2 million in seed money from his relatives (approximately $17 million in 2006 terms), George Bush prospered in the oil industry after graduating from Yale in 1949. Through his father's business and social relationship with a fellow Skull & Bones member, George Bush secured a position with Dresser Industries, on whose board of directors Prescott had served for 22 years. As the son of a moderate Republican senator, it was natural that George Bush would stand for office. At the time, the "Solid South" was solidly Democratic, with the Republican Party of Civil War winner (and Civil Rights champion) Abraham Lincoln anathema below the Mason-Dixon line.

Is played by James Cromwell (who is eight inches taller than he is) in W. (2008).

In January 2009, the U.S. Navy commissioned the "U.S.S. George H.W. Bush" Nimitz class aircraft carrier into service in Norfolk, Virginia. The carrier was named for the former U.S. President and was the last in the Nimitz class series.

To date (2010), only U.S. President to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (Director CIA 1976-1977).

As of 2015, George and Barbara Bush are the longest-married First Couple of the United States. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on January 6, 2015. As of 25 Nov. 2017, Bush (at 93y/166d) became the longest-living US President in history, surpassing Gerald Ford (at 93y/165d).