George H. W. Bush Biography

George Herbert Walker Bush or George H.W. Bush is an American politician, recognized for having been the 41st president of the United States, in addition to having passed through the Congress, the embassy, ​​the vice presidency and the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, and is the son of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

He began his studies at the Greenwich County College. For the year 1936, he studied at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he achieved great leadership, doing work as president of the senior class, secretary of the school board, member of the editorial team of the school newspaper, and captain in the teams of baseball and American football.

In the month of December of the year 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, George Bush made the decision to be part of the Navy. By 1942, after graduating from Phillips Academy, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18. After completing a 10-month course, on June 9, 1943, he was appointed as Ensign at the United States Naval Residence in Corpus Christi, Texas.

In 1943 he was also selected as a photography officer in the Torpedo Squadron (VT-51). During that time, the working group of which he was part, managed to obtain the victory in one of the biggest air battles of the Second World War: the battle of the Philippine Sea.

He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on August 1, 1944, and then began operations against the Japanese on the Bonin Islands, where he tested one of the four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft of the VT-51, to attack Chichijima. After finishing the operations, in the month of November of that same year George Bush returned to San Jacinto, until his squadron was sent back to the United States, where he continued to help the war effort by training new pilots at the Naval Base of Norfolk, until finally in that year they obtained the Japanese surrender, reason why Bush and his group had license with honors.

On January 6, 1945, George Bush married Barbara Pierce, with whom he had 6 children. Before returning to the army, he enrolled at Yale University, where he did a program that allowed him to take classes in two and a half years instead of four. He was a member and president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon male brotherhood and was also the captain of the college baseball team; He also began his participation in the secret society Skull and Bones. In 1948, he graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in economics.

After graduating, George Bush moved with his family to Texas, where with the help of his father he managed to enter the oil business, starting as a sales employee at Dresser Industries, a subsidiary of Brown Brothers Harriman. In 1951, Bush founded the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company and in 1953 he co-founded the Zapata Corporation. For the year 1954, he directed the Zapata Offshore Company, a subsidiary company of the first specialized in oil drilling.

For the year 1959, George Bush moved the headquarters of his company and his family to Houston; he also continued working as president of the company until 1964 and as part of the board until 1966, when he decided to devote himself to politics.

Between 1967 and 1971, he served as representative (deputy) to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, having been elected twice in a row by the Seventh Congressional District of the State of Texas.

Then, between 1971 and 1973, he was the ambassador of his country to the UN; He was also president of the National Committee of the Republican Party between 1973 and 1974.

Between 1976 and 1977, he worked as director of the CIA. By that time he also became one of the leading members of the Bilderberg Group along with David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. He was vice president of the United States between 1981 and 1989.

For the year 1988 he beat the other candidates in the first internal elections of the Republican Party, so he became the official presidential candidate of that party. On November 8 of that same year, George Bush won the presidential election, as he obtained 53.37% of the total votes and the support of 40 states.

After having finished his first term as president, in 1992 he lost the presidential election against Bill Clinton.