George Herbert Walker Bush
Bush High School
The 41st President of the United States, George Bush was elected to office on November 8, 1988, sworn in on January 20, 1989, and served until January 20, 1993. During his term in office, the Cold War ended; the threat of nuclear war was drastically reduced; the Soviet Union ceased to exist, replaced by a democratic Russia; the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunified; and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States all became free. President Bush also put together an unprecedented coalition of 32 nations to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s brutal aggression, thus paving the way for Israel and her Arab neighbors at the Madrid Peace Conference to begin anew their quest for peace in the Middle East. President Bush was the first sitting Vice President to ascend to the Presidency since Martin van Buren in 1837. He and his wife have been married 56 years and reside in Houston, Texas, and Kennebunkport, Maine.