George Herbert Walker Bush yang lahir di Milton, Massachusetts, Amerika Serikat, 12 Juni 1924; umur 92 tahun atau sering pula dipanggil oleh media sebagai Bush Senior untuk membedakannya dengan anaknya yang juga menjadi presiden Amerika Serikat, adalah Presiden Amerika Serikat ke-41 untuk masa jabatan 1989–1993. Sebelum menjabat presiden, Bush menjabat wakil presiden ke-43 dalam pemerintahan Presiden Ronald Reagan. George Bush Sr. adalah anak dari senator Prescott Sheldon Bush dan Dorothy Walker Bush. Ia lahir di Milton, Massachusetts dan menetap di Greenwich, Connecticut.Sebelum menjabat sebagai presiden, Bush tampil ke-43 sebagai Wakil Presiden Amerika Serikat mendampingi Presiden Ronald Reagan. Ia adalah salah seorang anggota Kongres dari Texas (1967–1971), Duta Besar Amerika Serikat untuk PBB (1971–1973), Ketua Pimpinan Nasional Partai Republik (1973–1974), Kepala Kantor Penghubung Amerika Serikat untuk Republik Rakyat Tiongkok (1974–1976), dan Direktur CIA (1976–1977). Bush adalah ayah presiden Amerika Serikat ke-43, George Walker Bush dan Gubernur Florida, Jeb Bush.
Anaknya George Walker Bush yang lahir di New Haven, Connecticut, Amerika Serikat, 6 Juli 1946; umur 70 tahun adalah Presiden Amerika Serikat ke-43. Ia dilantik 20 Januari 2001 setelah terpilih lewat pemilu presiden tahun 2000 dan terpilih kembali pada pemilu presiden tahun 2004. Jabatan kepresidenan kedua kalinya berakhir pada 20 Januari 2009. Sebelumnya, ia adalah Gubernur Texas ke-46 (1995-2000). Jabatan ini ditinggalkan sesaat setelah dirinya terpilih sebagai presiden. Ia digantikan oleh Barack Obama.
Dalam sejarahnya, Keluarga Bush adalah bagian dari Partai Republik dan politik Amerika. Bush adalah anak tertua mantan Presiden Amerika Serikat George H. W. Bush. Ibunya adalah Barbara Bush. Kakeknya, Prescott Bush adalah mantan Senator Amerika Serikat dari Connecticut. Sedang, adiknya, Jeb Bush adalah mantan Gubernur Florida. John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (lahir 11 Februari 1953; umur 63 tahun) adalah seorang anggota Partai Republik dan Gubernur Florida yang ke-43 saat ini. Ia juga bagian dari keluarga Bush yang merupakan adik dari Presiden Amerika Serikat George W. Bush. Ia adalah anak kedua mantan Presiden George H. W. Bush dan Barbara Bush.
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the U.S. Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. He is also the last living former President who is a veteran of World War II. Since 2000, Bush is often referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", or "George Bush Sr." to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who became the 43rd President of the United States. Prior to his son's presidency, he was simply referred to as George Bush or President Bush.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed college, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. Bush became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives and Director of Central Intelligence, among other positions. He failed to win the Republican nomination for President in 1980, but was chosen as a running mate by party nominee Ronald Reagan, and the two were elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting the "War on Drugs".
In 1988, Bush ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as President, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency: military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and, after a struggle with Congress, signed an increase in taxes that Congress had passed. In the wake of a weak recovery from an economic recession, along with continuing budget deficits and the controversy over his appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton.
Bush left office in 1993. His presidential library was dedicated in 1997, and he has been active—often alongside Bill Clinton—in various humanitarian activities. Besides being the 43rd president (2001–09), his son George also served as the 46th Governor of Texas (1995–2000) and is one of only two presidents—the other being John Quincy Adams—to be the son of a former president. His second son, Jeb Bush, served as the 43rd Governor of Florida (1999–2007) and made an unsuccessful run for the Republican Party nomination for the office in 2016.
