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Dec 1, 2018 · Getty Images. In April 2018, former US First Lady Barbara Bush died at the age of 92. The couple had been married for more than 70 years. Office of George H W Bush/REUTERS. The 93-year-old former ...
Dec 5, 2018 · Obama smiles as Bush says hello. 35 of 58. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty. In a heart-warming display of fondness for the former First Lady, George W. Bush slips Michelle Obama candy as he famously ...
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The 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, died on November 30 at the age of 94. His presidency was just one period of his career in the military and politics. Barbara, his wife of ...
Dec 1, 2018 · A Life in Pictures: Remembering George H.W. Bush The airman, congressman, UN ambassador, China envoy, vice president, CIA director, president, and father of another president, died at his home in ...
- An Early Leader. Young George (shown here in 1945) got his first taste of public service as a student leader and captain of the baseball and soccer teams at the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
- Defending His Country. The 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor had a major impact on Bush. On his 18th birthday in 1942, he joined the U.S. Navy, earning his wings a year later and becoming the service's youngest pilot.
- A Growing Family. After he was discharged from the Navy, Bush earned a degree in economics from Yale University and became a dad; George Walker Bush was born in 1946.
- Striking It Rich. Instead of joining his father's Wall Street investment firm after graduation in 1948, Bush took a job in the Texas oil industry. The young man (shown here in the oil fields of Midland, Texas) worked his way up from sweeping warehouses to selling drill bits.
George H. W. Bush. George Herbert Walker Bush[a] (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan and previously in ...
Contents. Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush. On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died from vascular Parkinson's syndrome at his home in Houston, Texas. Bush was the first former U.S. president to die in nearly 12 years since Gerald Ford in late 2006.
