George W. Bush
President Bush was
born July 6, 1946, and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor's
degree from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business
School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard before beginning his
career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975, working in the energy industry
until 1986. After working on his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign, he
assembled the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in
1989.
He served as managing general partner of the Texas Rangers until he was elected Governor on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In an historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas Governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998, winning 68.6 percent of the vote.
President Bush is
pursuing the same common-sense approach and bipartisan spirit that he used in Texas. He
has proposed bold initiatives to ensure that America's prosperity has a purpose. He has
also addressed improving our nation's public schools by strengthening local control and
insisting on accountability; reducing taxes on all taxpayers, especially for those
Americans on the fringes of poverty; strengthening the military with better pay, better
planning, and better equipment; saving and strengthening Social Security and Medicare by
providing seniors with more options; and ushering in the responsibility era in America.
President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former teacher and librarian, and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, who are college students. The Bush family also includes their dogs, Spot and Barney, and a cat, India.
