George W. Bush

BIRTH NAME
George Walker Bush

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Episcopalian, then Methodist

EDUCATION
Yale BA 1968; Harvard Business School MBA 1971

VITALS
5 ft 11.5 in / 191 lbs

CAREER
1968-73 Pilot, Air National Guard (Texas, then Alabama)
1977-89 Oil exploration executive, Houston, Texas
1978 Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Representative, Texas
1989-98 Owner, Texas Rangers Baseball Club
1995-2000 Governor of Texas

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 7, 2000
Popular: Bush 50,999,897 (48.4%) Al Gore 50,456,002 (47.9%) Ralph Nader 2,882,955 (3%)
Electoral: Bush 271 Gore 266 Abstain 1
November 2, 2004
Popular: Bush 62,040,610 (51%) John F. Kerry 59,028,444 (48%)
Electoral: Bush 286 Kerry 251 John Edwards 1

VICE PRESIDENT
Dick Cheney (2001-09)

ADMINISTRATION
September 11 terrorist attacks, Military action in Afghanistan (2001); Department of Homeland Security (2002); Space Shuttle Columbia exploded, War in Iraq (2003); Hurricane Katrina (2005); Lehman Brothers collapses signaling global financial crisis (2008)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
John G. Roberts (Chief), Samuel A. Alito

FIRST LADY
Laura Lane Welch

“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.”
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, September 11, 2001

Portrait of George W. Bush by John Howard Sanden, 2012.