George H. W. Bush

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Drawing of George H. W. Bush by Dillon Kintzel.

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George H. W. Bush was an American politician who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989-1993 among the Republican party. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981-1989. He was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts. George H. W. Bush fought in WW1 and was elected to the House of Representatives.

According to Biography.com, Bush became the chairman of the Harris County Republican Party in 1963. The following year, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas. It didn’t take Bush long to enter Congress, however; in 1966, two years after his unsuccessful Senate bid, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, ultimately serving two terms. Bush was later appointed to several important positions, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1971, head of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal.

In Houston, Texas on November 30, George H. W. Bush passed away at the age of 94 from what appears to be natural causes although he was suffering from vascular parkinsonism, the result of mini-strokes affecting a part of the brain called the basal ganglia which would later lead to Parkinson’s disease.