George W. Bush

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George Walker Bush

George W. Bush was born on July 6, 1964, in New Haven, Conecticut. He was the first child of George H. W. Bush and Barbara P. Bush. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, and his father were both congreesmen. At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas. After a year the family relocated to California. Ayear later , the family moved back to Texas. Bush lived in Texas from 1950 to 1959. In 1959, they moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Teaxas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Philips Academy. At Philips Bush got involved in sports.
He enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut in 1964. During that same year Bush campaigned for his father in his unsuccessful run to win a U.S. Senate seat from Texas. At Yale Bush was an average student, but was very popular with his classmates. Bush usually didn’t get involved in campus politics, because he felt uneasy with the growth of the student protest movement. He campaigned for his father, in 1968, when he was running for reelection in the House of Representatives. Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor degree in history in 1968.
When he completed college he became eligible for the draft. To fulfill his duty, he enlisted in the Texas National Guard. He did his basic training at Lack land Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and entered a pilot-training program at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgis. He remained in the Air National Guard until 1973.
During the 1970's, Bush worked on U.S. Senate campaigns for Republican candidates in Florida and Alabama. He also worked for a Houston-based firm that specialized in large-scale agriculture operations. In 1973 he was admitted to Harvard Business School in Massachusetts.
Bush returned to Midland, Texas, after earning his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1975. In 1977 Bush announced he was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. After he stated his candidacy...