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George Herbert Walker Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush
President

  • Born June 12, 1924 - Milton, Norfolk Co., MA
  • Deceased November 30, 2018 - Houston, Harris Co., TX,aged 94 years old
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BUSH, George Herbert Walker, (son of Prescott Sheldon Bush, father of President George W. Bush), a Representative from Texas and a Vice President of the United States and 41st President of the United States; born in Milton, Suffolk County, Mass., June 12, 1924; graduated, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 1942; graduated Yale University 1948; lieutenant (jg.) United States Navy 1942-1945; formed Bush-Overby Oil Development, Inc., Midland, Tex. 1951; helped organize Zapata Petroleum Corp., Midland, Tex. 1953, and first president of Zapata Off-Shore Co., Midland, Tex. 1954; unsuccessful nominee in 1964 to the United States Senate; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress; reelected to the Ninety-first Congress (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate; United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1971-1973; chairman, Republican National Committee 1973-1974; chief United States liaison officer, People's Republic of China 1974-1976; director, Central Intelligence Agency 1976-1977; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1980, but was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with President Ronald Reagan, November 4, 1980, and reelected 1984; Vice President of the United States 1981-1989; elected President of the United States in 1988, and was inaugurated on January 20, 1989; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992; awarded the title of Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993; is a resident of Houston, Tex.
--- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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                                                                             _____|16_Obadiah Newcomb Bush 1797-ca 1851
                                                   _____|8_James Smith Bush, Rev. 1825-1889
                                                  /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|17_Harriet Smith 1800-1867
                         _____|4_Samuel Prescott Bush 1863-1948
                        /                        \                          _____|18_Samuel Howard Fay 1804-1847
                       /                          ¯¯¯¯¯|9_Harriet Eleanor Fay 1829-1924
                      /                                                     ¯¯¯¯¯|19_Susan Shellman 1808-1887
|2_Prescott Sheldon Bush, Sen. 1895-1972
|                    \                                                     _____|20_Thomas H. Sheldon 1818-1854
|                     \                           _____|10_Robert Emmet Sheldon 1845-1917
|                      \                         /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|21_Martha Uncles 1824-1912
|                       ¯¯¯¯¯|5_Flora Sheldon 1872-1920
|                                                \                          _____|22_Courtland Philip Livingston Butler 1813-1891
|                                                 ¯¯¯¯¯|11_Mary Elizabeth Butler 1850-1897
|                                                                           ¯¯¯¯¯|23_Elizabeth Slade Pierce 1822-1901
|--1_George Herbert Walker Bush, President 1924-2018
|                                                                           _____|24_George E. Walker ca 1797-1864
|                                                  _____|12_David Davis Walker 1840-1918
|                                                 /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|25_Harriet Mercer 1802-1869
|                       _____|6_George Herbert Walker 1875-1953
|                      /                        \                          _____|26_Joseph Ambrose Beaky 1818-1858
|                     /                          ¯¯¯¯¯|13_Martha Adela Beaky 1841-1917
|                    /                                                     ¯¯¯¯¯|27_Mary Ann Bangs 1817-1876/
|3_Dorothy Wear Walker 1901-1992
                      \                                                     _____|28_William Gault Wear 1817-1887
                       \                           _____|14_James Huthenson Wear 1838-1893
                        \                         /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|29_Sarah Amanda Yancey 1819-1879
                         ¯¯¯¯¯|7_Lucretia Wear 1874-1961
                                                  \                         _____|30_John James Holliday 1819-1881
                                                   ¯¯¯¯¯|15_Nancy Eliza Holliday 1847-1942
                                                                             ¯¯¯¯¯|31_Lucretia Green Foree 1822-