George W Bush Biography
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George W Bush is the forty third and current president of the United States. He was elected to his first term as the president on January 20, 2001 in the 2000 Presidential election. He was re-elected to a second term in the 2004 Presidential election.
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Prior to becoming the President of the United States, George W Bush was the forty sixth governor of Texas. He was the governor from 1995 to 2000.
George Walker Bush is the oldest child of former president George H W Bush and Barbara Bush. He has four siblings, Jeb, Neil, Marvin and Dorothy. He had another sister named Robin, who died of leukemia in 1953. George W Bush was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas.
Bush attended the Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where he played baseball and he was also the head cheerleader at his school during his senior year. After that, he attended Yale University were he received his Bachelor’s degree in 1968 in history. During his Yale years, Bush became a member of a secret society known as Skull and Bones.
He made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. After that, Bush started working for his family’s oil business. He also was the co-owner of the Texas Rangers before making a comeback into politics to campaign for Governor of Texas. In 1994, George W Bush defeated Ann Richards and was elected as the Governor of Texas.
In 2000, George W Bush won the presidential elections as a Republican candidate in which he lost the popular vote but won the elections on electoral vote. He was re-elected as president on November 2, 2004 where he defected the democratic candidate Senator John Kerry.
Many consider George W Bush as the worst president in modern American history.
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