George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the
41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was also
Ronald Reagan's
Vice President (1981–1989), a
congressman, an ambassador, and
Director of Central Intelligence.
Bush was born in
Massachusetts to Senator and New York Banker
Prescott Bush and
Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on
Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest
naval aviator in the US Navy at the time.
He served until the end of the war, then attended
Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to
West Texas and entered the
oil business, becoming a
millionaire by the age of 40.
