President bushs biography

Bush was the 43rd president of the United States.

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He narrowly won the Electoral College vote in , in one of the closest and most controversial elections in American history. Before his presidency, Bush was a businessman and served as governor of Texas. The Bush family had been involved in business and politics since the s. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a former Wall Street banker and progressive Republican senator from Connecticut, and his father was a businessman, diplomat, and vice president and president of the United States.

In , George H. Bush moved the family to Midland, Texas, where he made his fortune in the oil business. Young George spent most of his childhood in Midland, attending school there until the seventh grade. The family moved to Houston in , and George W. Bush was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. There he was an all-around athlete, playing baseball, basketball and football.

He was a fair student and had a reputation for being an occasional troublemaker.