George W. Bush Biography

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George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States of America who served from 2001 to 2009. He was the son of George Herbert Walker Bush who was the 41st president. Before George W. Bush ran for president he was the two-term Governor of Texas. George W. Bush also graduated from Yale University and Harvard Business School. He also owned the Texas Rangers baseball team.
.George W. Bush was the oldest of six children of George H. W. Bush. was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven Connecticut. He was raised in Texas where George H. W. Bush was an executive in the oil business. He attended high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. George W. Bush went to Yale where his father and grandfather also attended.
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