159.GeorgeW18Bush (George Herbert Walker17, Prescott Sheldon16, Flora15 Sheldon, Mary Elizabeth14 Butler, Elizabeth Slade13 Pierce, Betsy S12 Wheeler, Sarah11 Horton, Joanna10 Wood, Jabez9, Hannah8 Nelson, Hope7 Huckins, Hope6 Chipman, Hope5 Howland, John4, Henry3, John2, John1) was born July 06, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut698. He married LauraWelch699 November 05, 1977 in Midland, TX699.
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Education: B.A., Yale University, 1968; Masters in Business Administration, Harvard University, 1975.
Served in the Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973.
Worked in the oil and gas industry in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ran for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas' 19th congressional district in 1978, losing to Democrat Kent Hance.
With other investors, purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989.
Elected governor of Texas in 1994 with 53 percent of the vote, defeating incumbent Ann Richards. Re-elected in 1998 with 69 percent.
George W. Bush was born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was still a student at Yale when he was born.
Proud parents George and Barbara Bush with their infant son George in April 1947. After George H.W. Bush graduated from Yale in June 1948, the young family moved to Odessa, Texas, where the Governor’s father began work in the oil business.
George W. Bush attended Yale from 1964 until 1968 and graduated with a major in history. He played baseball during his freshman year and rugby during his junior and senior years. He later attended Harvard and earned a Masters of Business Administration in 1975.
George W. Bush met Laura Welch at a dinner at the home of their mutual Midland friends Jan and Joe O’Neill in the summer of 1977. The couple married a little more than three months later, on November 5, 1977, at a small service attended by their closest friends and family.
George W. Bush received the best and most important job of his life in 1981 when his twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, were born. The girls are named after their grandmothers. Since their grandfather was the Vice-President of the United States at the time, the girls had their first press conference about two hours after they were born.
George W. Bush is the 46th Governor of the State of Texas. Now in his second term, Governor Bush has earned a reputation as a compassionate conservative who shapes policy based on the principles of limited government, personal responsibility, strong families and local control.
Governor Bush has worked over the past three Texas Legislative sessions in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation with Lt. Governor Rick Perry, his predecessor Lt. Governor Bob Bullock, House Speaker Pete Laney, and members of the Texas Legislature to enact historic reforms to improve public schools, cut taxes, put welfare recipients to work, curb frivolous lawsuits, encourage new business and job growth, and strengthen criminal justice laws. Governor Bush’s first priority is the education of Texas children. He has worked with the Legislature to increase the state’s share of funding for schools, to restore local control, to strengthen the state’s accountability system, to give parents greater choice of schools and to foster competition and creativity through charter schools and an expanded menu of educational opportunity.
His most profound goal for Texas is that every child will learn to read by third grade and will continue to read at grade level or better throughout public school.
Legislation signed by the Governor during the 1999 Texas Legislative session included a sweeping proposal to end social promotion in Texas schools, the largest funding increase for public education in the state’s history and $2.1 billion in tax cuts and relief, the largest tax-cut in Texas history. These cuts are in addition to $1 billion in school property tax cuts enacted in 1998.
George W. Bush was born July 6, 1946 and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986. After working on his father’s 1988 presidential campaign he assembled the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989 and which later built the Ranger’s new home, the Ballpark at Arlington. 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 a 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. Governor Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of women. He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any modern Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and Democratic border counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo.
Governor Bush and his wife, Laura, a former teacher and librarian who grew up in Midland, reside in the historic Governor’s Mansion in Austin with their 18-year-old twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, their dog, Spot, and their three cats, India, Cowboy and Ernie.
Governor Bush is a Methodist and has served on the boards of various charitable, business and civic organizations.
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Occupation: November 1998, Govenor of Texas
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Laura Welch Bush
Biography (From George W Bush Campaign Web Site March 4, 2000)
The day before her husband was first sworn in as Texas’ Governor, Laura Welch Bush hosted seven Texas authors who read from their books at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center. These readings offered Texans a preview of one of Mrs. Bush’s primary interests, literacy, which she promotes as First Lady of Texas. Mrs. Bush’s background as a teacher and librarian and her lifelong passion for reading have been the motivating forces behind her advocacy of literacy for all Texans.
Mrs. Bush launched an early childhood development initiative in 1998 to help parents and caregivers prepare infants and young children for reading and learning when they enter school. The initiative includes a family literacy project for Texas, a collaborative effort with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
Mrs. Bush helped organize a celebration of Texas books and authors called the Texas Book Festival in 1996. The festival has become an annual fund-raiser for Texas public libraries. During the last three years, approximately 230 Texas public libraries have received Texas Book Festival grants totaling nearly $600,000.
Mrs. Bush also highlights breast cancer awareness and works with the National Governors Association’s Governor’s Spouse Program to promote women’s health. She works with Community Partners, the volunteer arm of the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, to establish Adopt-A-Caseworker programs and Rainbow Rooms across the state. Rainbow Rooms are community resource rooms that provide abused and neglected children with basic necessities, including clothing and diapers. Mrs. Bush also promotes the arts, showcasing the works of Texas artists in her office with year-round exhibits. She serves on several boards, including the University of Texas Graduate School of Library and Information Science Foundation Advisory Council and the national Reading is Fundamental Advisory Council.
Mrs. Bush is a native Texan who was born in Midland. She taught in public schools in Dallas, Houston and Austin from 1968 to 1977 and earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Southern Methodist University and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Texas at Austin. She and George W. Bush were married in Midland in 1977. They are the proud parents of twin girls, Barbara and Jenna, who were born in 1981 and are named after their grandmothers.
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Marriage: November 05, 1977, Midland, TX699
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