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Personal
Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut
Birth name: George Walker Bush
Children: Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush (November 25, 1981)
Education: Yale University, B.A., 1968; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1975
Military: Texas Air National Guard, F-102 fighter pilot, 1968-1970
Religion: Methodist
Facts
After John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush is the second president to be the son of a president.
His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a US senator from Connecticut. His younger brother, Jeb Bush, served as the governor of Florida and ran for president in 2016.
His interests include oil painting, golf, bicycling and baseball.
George W Bush Fast Facts
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To get a sense of the changing nature of the Texas delegation, it is necessary only to view two wildly disparate events: the monthly meeting of the Texas Breakfast Club and the extemporaneous orations of acid-tongued Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich. A recent meeting of the breakfast club, on a Thursday morning in April, drew about 280 Texans, pseudo-Texans, former Texans, staffers for Texas congressmen, and Texas media types, who crowded in to hear the day’s guest, Supreme Court justice and El Paso native Sandra Day O’Connor. The club began more than twenty years ago, when the Texas delegation was the most unified and probably the most powerful in Washington. Since then the breakfasts have been a nonpartisan exercise in good-natured fellowship and chauvinism. “I thought you might want to hear the inside story of how the Supreme Court really works,” said O’Connor after she was introduced by Congressman Ralph Hall. “But Ralph said, ‘No, this is a pretty sophisticated gr