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George H.W. Bush
41st president of the United States
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George H.W. Bush (born June 12, 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 30, 2018, Houston, Texas) was a politician and businessman who was vice president of the United States (1981–89) and the 41st president of the United States (1989–93). As president, Bush assembled a multinational force to compel the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War. Bush was the son of Prescott Sheldon Bush, an investment banker and U.S. senator from Connecticut, and Dorothy Walker Bush, scion of a prominent St. Louis, Missouri, family. (Her father established the amateur golf competition known as the Walker Cup.) The young ...(100 of 1726 words)