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George Herbert Walker Bush (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

previously served as the 43rd vice president from

1981 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives,

as U.S. Ambassador

to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence.

Bush was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut,

and attended Phillips Academy before

serving in the United States Navy Reserve during World War II. After the war, he graduated from Yale and moved

to West Texas, where he established a successful oil company.

After an unsuccessful run for the United States Senate, he won election to

the 7th congressional district of

Texas in 1966. President Richard Nixon appointed Bush to the position of Ambassador to

the United Nations in 1971 and to the position of chairman of the

Republican National Committee in 1973. In 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed him as the Chief of the Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China,

and in 1976, Bush became the Director of Central Intelligence. Bush ran for

president in 1980, but was defeated in the Republican

presidential primaries by Ronald Reagan, who then selected Bush

as his vice presidential running mate. In the 1988

presidential election, Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis, becoming the first incumbent vice president

to be elected president since Martin Van Buren in 1836.

Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency, as

he navigated the final years of the Cold War and played a key role in the reunification of Germany.

Bush presided over the invasion of Panama and the Gulf War, ending the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in

the latter conflict. Though the agreement was not ratified until after he left

office, Bush negotiated and signed the North American

Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which created a trade bloc

consisting of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Domestically, Bush reneged

on a 1988 campaign promise by

enacting legislation to raise taxes with the justification of reducing the

budget deficit. He also championed and signed three pieces of bipartisan

legislation, the Americans with

Disabilities Act of 1990, Immigration Act of 1990 and

the Clean Air Act Amendments of

1990. He also successfully appointed David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Bush lost the 1992

presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton following an economic recession, his

turnaround on his tax promise, and

the decreased emphasis of foreign policy in a post–Cold War political climate. After

leaving office in 1993, Bush was active in humanitarian activities, often

working alongside Clinton, his former opponent. With the victory of his

son, George W. Bush, in

the 2000

presidential election, the two became the second father–son pair to

serve as the nation's president, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Another son, Jeb Bush, unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential

nomination in the 2016 Republican

primaries. Historians generally rank Bush as an above-average president.