George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States. He led his country’s response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003.

• George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He had previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
• Born: July 6, 1946 (age 73 years), New Haven, CT
• Artworks: Ehud Olmert, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Junichiro Koizumi
• Presidential term: January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009
• Vice president: Dick Cheney (2001–2009)
• Party: Republican Party
• Spouse: Laura Bush (m. 1977)
• First president born in Connecticut.
• First president to serve in the Air National Guard.
• First president inaugurated in the 21st century.
• First president to have an M.B.A. degree.
• First president to serve two terms who was the son of a president.
• First president to meet with two popes while in office, Pope John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI.
• First president to visit Sweden, Peru, Lithuania, Qatar, Iraq, Slovakia, Georgia, Mongolia, Estonia, Albania, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Benin while in office.
• First president to have State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet.
• First president to have served in the military during the Vietnam War, where he performed stateside service.
• First president to invoke Section 3 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution twice.
• First president to have a 90% approval rating in the history of modern political polling.
• First president to have had a secretary of homeland security.
• First president to lose the popular vote in his first election but win the popular vote at his re-election.
• First president to open the Winter Olympic Games (the 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City) while in office.
• First president to attend an Olympic Games in a foreign country (the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing) while in office.
• First president to leave office with both parents still alive. (Bush left office in 2009, while his parents both died in 2018, nine years after he left office).
• First president to reach the age of 70 with both parents living at the time.
• First president to have both parents die in the same year. His mother Barbara Bush died on April 17, 2018 while his father George H. W. Bush died seven months later on November 30, 2018.
• First president to be re-elected without winning a Northeastern state.
• First president to win ten more states than his opponent at an election, and receive fewer total votes.
• First president to be named Time Person of the Year for both of his presidential elections. He was named Time Person of the Year when he was first elected and re-elected.
• First president to write a presidential biography, 41: A Portrait of My Father, about George H. W. Bush.
• First president to write and illustrate an art book, Portraits of Courage.
• First president to celebrate Diwali.