Date

Jun 12 2024

Event

Birthday

41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush Birthday

George H.W. Bush was the 41st President of the United States and served as vice president under Ronald Reagan. He was also the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President.

• George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989.
• Born: June 12, 1924, Milton, MA
• Died: November 30, 2018, Houston, TX
• Vice president: Dan Quayle (1989–1993)
• Presidential term: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993
• Years of service: 1942–1945
• Children: George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush, Dorothy Bush Koch, Pauline Robinson Bush, Marvin Bush
• First president to have served as acting president (when Reagan was sedated for eight hours due to colon surgery).
• First president to visit Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Somalia, and the Russian Federation, as well as a reunified Germany while in office.
• First president to have served as director of Central Intelligence (office is now the director of the Central Intelligence Agency).
• First president to have served as a United States ambassador to the United Nations (1970–73).
• First president whose son (George W. Bush) was re-elected president.
• First president to have been a naval aviator.
• First president to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
• First president to have been married for 55 years. (George and Barbara Bush surpassed marriage longevity record set by John and Abigail Adams—54 years, 3 days—on January 10, 1999.)
• First president to have been married 70 years. (George and Barbara Bush were married for 73 years, 101 days.)
• First president to have had a secretary of veterans affairs.
• First president to serve as chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973–74).
• First president to serve as a diplomat to China, having served as chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People’s Republic of China from 1974–75.
• First president to be the subject of a presidential biography, 41: A Portrait of My Father, written by his son, George W. Bush
• First president to die in the same year as his wife (he died on November 30, 2018 while his wife died on April 17, 2018).
• First president to live to the age of 94.