George W. Bush

George W. Bush married Laura Welch, a school teacher and librarian, in 1977, and four years later Laura gave birth to fraternal twin daughters, Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush.

George W. Bush was born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut as the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce. He had five younger siblings – Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Dorothy and Robin (who passed away at the age of three due to leukemia).

His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a US Senator from Connecticut and his father, Bush Sr., held the US Vice-President’s office for two terms in the 1980s and then became the 41st US President in 1989.

He received his schooling from Kinkaid School in Houston and Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 with B.A. degree in history and enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard from where he was honorably discharged in 1974.

While on his guard duty he started attending Harvard Business School in 1973 and graduated in 1975 with a Masters of Business Administration degree.

After completing his MBA, George W. Bush returned to Midland and entered the oil business. In 1979, he created Arbusto Energy and sold the company in 1986.

In 1988 he shifted to Washington D.C. to help his father in his campaign for presidency, which turned out to be successful. Bush Sr. again called out for his eldest son to manage his 1992 Presidential re-election, but this time their luck ran out and Bush Sr. lost.

In 1994, George W. Bush ran for the office of Governor of Texas and he won the election by defeating the incumbent Governor and the Democrat candidate, Ann Richards. His election campaign focused on welfare, reforms, crime reduction and improvement of education.

As Governor he raised the salaries of the teachers, implemented policies that reduced domestic violence and allocated funds to organizations that educated people about the (side) effects of drug usage.

In 1998, he won the re-election with a big mandate and became the first Governor in Texas history to hold two consecutive four-year terms. In 1999 with the implementation of a new law, Texas became the leading producer of wind powered electricity in US.

Before the completion of George W. Bush’s first year as President at the White House, America was devastated by the September 11, 2001 attacks. Bush promised the people that justice would be done to the approximately 3000 innocent people who had lost their lives. He launched a scathing attack called the War on Terror to dismantle the Taliban and capture/kill Osama Bin Laden (then presumably in Afghanistan), under which the US military invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

In 2003, he ordered the U.S military forces to invade Iraq and the U.S. believed that the then Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. U.S forces deposed Saddam Hussein and in 2005, free democratic elections were held in Iraq for the first time in 50 years.