George w bush father

George W. Bush: Education, Family and Early Political Career

Bush, the oldest of six children of George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) and Barbara Bush (1925-2018), was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven Connecticut, when his father, a former World War II naval aviator, was a student at Yale University.

He was raised in Texas, where the senior Bush was an executive in the oil industry, and attended high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Bush went on to Yale, the alma mater of his father and grandfather, Prescott Bush (1895-1972), a banker and U.S.

senator, and earned a degree in history in 1968.

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George w bush accomplishments

Bush was the first son of a president to become president since John Quincy Adams.

That same year, with America fighting the Vietnam War (1954-75), Bush was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard.

He trained to become a pilot and completed his active-duty service in 1970. In 1973, he entered Harvard Business School and received an MBA in 1975. Bush then r