George H. W. Bush is best known as the forty-first president of the United States. He was born on June 12, 1924. His father was Prescott Sheldon Bush who was a Republican senator from Connecticut. He married Barbara Pierce, who is the daughter of McCall's publishing empire chairman Marvin Pierce, in 1945. Our forty-first president has five kids still living and one who died at age 4 (Robin Bush). His five kids are George Walker Bush, who is our current president, Dorothy, Marvin, Neil, and Florida's current governor, Jeb Bush. His grandfather was George Herbert Walker, who was a senior founder of the private Wall Street Banking firm, G.H. Walker and Company.  George H. W. Bush graduated from Yale in 1948 with a degree in economics. His profession was as a Texas business man who made money from drilling oil before entering politics. He was proved some type of success at using other people's money to build his own wealth, and ultimately his successful political career. The company that he wanted to work for the most after graduation was Proctor and Gamble who rejected him. When he got interviewed by a couple of companies, he used his family connections to get a job. Ex-President Bush,like his son George W. and his father Prescott Bush, was a Yale graduate and a member of Yale's secretive Skull and Bones Society. Before he became the senator of Connecticut, which was from 1952 to 1963, Prescott was the longest-sitting member of Dressser Industries, a Dallas-based oil drilling equipment supply company. In 1953, Bush got money from Brown Brothers Harriman and teamed up with Hugh and Bill Liedtke, formed Zapata Petroleum. In the late 1950s they were millionaires. Bush bought subsidiary Zapata Offshore from his partners and went into business on his own on 1954. His career was as political leader whom received the distinguished Flying Cross for Bravery during the World War II. He was a U.S. Congressman from Texas through 1966 to 1970; He was the ambassador to the United Nations through 1971 to 1974; Special Envoy to China through 1974 to 1975; He was the Republican National Chairman through 1975 to 1976; he was in the CIA as a director from 1976 to 1977; he was the Vice President of the U.S. from 1981 to 1989; president of the U.S. 1989 to 1993. Bush campaigned against the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and lost the election but was elected to Congress in 1966 and again in 1968. He was defeated in the race for Senate by Democrat Lloyd Bentsen in 1970. He was the head of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) from November 1975 to January 1977. As head of the CIA, Bush was answerable only to President Ford. He was the first CIA outsider to hold the agency's top position. While in the DCI he maintained a policy of disinformation and secrecy. In September 1976, Chilean dissident leader Orlando Letelier was killed in Washington D.C. He was was Ronald Reagan's Vice President. He ran for President in 1988 against the democratic nominee Michael Dukakis. He chose J. Danforth Quayle as his vice presidential running mate. He was the Commander in Chief when he oversaw two major U.S. military deployments.
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