FAME '10 Decades Project - 1990's

George Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924 he also became the 41st president of the united states 1989–1993. He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President 1981–1989 a congress man an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. he became very successful. Bush was born in Massachusetts. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush put his pans to go to college on hold because he wanted to join the war doing so, He became the youngest aviator in the US Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then finally after the war was over he attended a school name Yale University. He graduated in 1948, Soon after he moved his family to Texas and entered the oil business, this made him become a millionaire by the age of 40. He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse. In 1988, Bush launched a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as president, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency; military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf at a time of world change; the1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton.