President George Herbert Walker Bush died in his home on November 30th following a long battle with Vascular Parkinson’s disease. Below is a brief overview of his life:

• Born June 12th, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895 – 1972) and Dorothy Bush (1901 – 1992).
• Attended Greenwich Country Day School
• Attended Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts from 1938
• Held numerous leadership positions including President of the senior class, secretary of the student council, president of the community fund-raising group, member of the editorial board of the school newspaper, and captain of the varsity baseball and soccer teams
• Served in the US Navy as a naval aviator from 1942 until 1945
• Attained the rank of junior-grade Lieutenant
• Earnt the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and President Unit Citation
• Married Barbara Bush (1925 – 2018) in January 1945
• Fathered six children: President George W. Bush (1946 – ), Robin Bush (1949 – 1953), Jeb Bush (1953 – ), Neil Bush (1955 – ), Marvin Bush (1956 – ), and Doro Bush (1959 – ).
• Enrolled at Yale University where he earnt an undergraduate degree in economics on an accelerated program which allowed him to complete his studies in two years.
• Elected President of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
• Captain of the Yale Baseball Team with whom he played two college world series as a left-handed batsman
• Became a member of the secret Skull and Bones Society
• Elected Phi Beta Kappa, America’s oldest academic honour society, upon graduating Yale in 1948.
• Worked as an oil field equipment salesman for Dressler Industries
• Established Bush-Overby Oil Development Company in 1951
• Co-founded Zapata Petroleum Corporation, which drilled in Texas’ Permian Basin, in 1953
• Became President of Zapata Offshore Company
• After Zapata Offshore Company became independent in 1959, Bush served as its President until 1964 and then Chairman until 1966
• Elected Chairman of the Harris County, Texas Republican Party
• Ran against Democrat incumbent Ralph W. Yarborough for the US Senate in 1964, but lost
• Elected to the House of Representatives in 1966
• Appointed to the Ways and Means Committee
• Ran against Democrat Lloyd Bentsen for a seat in the Senate in 1970, but lost
• Served as the US Ambassador the United Nations from 1971 to 1973.
• Served as Chairman of the Republican Nation Committee from 1973 to 1974.
• Appointed Chief of the US Liason Office in the People’s Republic of China from 1974 to 1975.
• Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1977.
• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the First International Bank in 1977
• Part-time Professor of Administrative Science at Rice University’s Jones School of Businesses in 1978
• Director of the Council On Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1979.
• Sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980 but lost to Ronald Reagan.
• Served as Vice President from 1981 to 1989.
• Elected President of the United States in 1988.
• President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
• Defeated by Bill Clinton in the 1992 Presidential election
• Awarded an honourary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II.
• Chairman of the board of trustee for Eisenhower Fellowships from 1993 to 1999
• Chairman of the National Constitution Centre from 2007 to 2009.
• Became a widower after seventy-three-years of marriage.
• Died November 30th, 2018 at the age of 94.