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George W. Bush, known as “W” to most people, was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1946 to the parents of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Most of his adolescence was spent in Midland and Houston, Texas. He is the eldest son of five siblings, which include, Jeb, governor of Florida, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. Like his father, Bush attended the same college, Philips Andover Academy in Massachusetts before he went and graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in 1968 (A&E 1). While attending school, he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and became a member of Skull and Bones at Yale. Unlike his father, George Bush did not receive any kind of scholarships for baseball instead he was president of his fraternity as his extracurricular activity (Newsmakers 1). W then returned to Texas in May, still followi
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Despite his mother’s opinion, Bush wanted to run as governor of Texas against the powerful Democrat Ann Richards. Senate Campaigns in Florida and Alabama, he went to Harvard Business School in 1972 and received his M. He earned his first million within ten years, but the oil industry for Bush didn’t exactly turn out the way it had for his father.
On his 40th birthday, George Bush came to a cross road in his life where he stopped drinking and became a strong Methodist with his wife Laura. Although, during this time of the early seventies reporters like to call this a, “nomadic period” for Bush. W built a small independent oil and gas exploration company called Arbusto (the Spanish word for “bush”). The campaign against Ann Richard’s was tough, she used sayings such as: “If he didn’t have his daddy’s name he would not amount to anything. He has increased 47 percent of the TAAS tests in all parts.
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