George Bush

BIRTH NAME
George Herbert Walker Bush

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
Yale B.A. 1948

VITALS
6 ft 2 in / 196 lbs

CAREER
1943-45 Naval aviator, Pacific theater
1948-67 Oil industry businessman, Texas
1964 Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate, Texas
1967-71 U.S. Representative, Texas
1970 Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate, Texas
1971-73 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
1973-74 Chair, Republican National Committee
1974-75 Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China
1976-77 Director, Central Intelligence Agency
1977-80 Executive Committee Chair, First International Bank, Houston
1981-89 U.S. Vice President (Reagan)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 8, 1988
Popular: Bush 48,886,588 (53%) Michael S. Dukakis 41,809,485 (46%)
Electoral: Bush 426 Dukakis 111 Lloyd Bentsen 1

VICE PRESIDENT
J. Danforth Quayle (1989-93)

ADMINISTRATION
Department of Veterans Affairs, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Berlin Wall falls, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega trial (1989); Americans with Disabilities Act (1990); Persian Gulf War, Soviet Union dissolved (1991); 27th Amendment (Congressional salary)(1992)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas

FIRST LADY
Barbara Pierce (1989-93)

“We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”
Acceptance speech, Republican National Convention, New Orleans, August 18, 1988

Portrait of George Herbert Walker Bush by Herbert E. Abrams, 1994.