Which number president was Bush senior?
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41st
Took office in 1989.
๐ก Did you know? George H. W. Bush had previously been vice president under Ronald Reagan for eight years.
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George H. W. Bush, born in Massachusetts in 1924, was the forty-first President of the United States (1989 to 1993). Before his presidency he had a long career behind him: among other things as CIA director and as vice president under Ronald Reagan. His term saw world-shaking events: the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, as well as the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1991 he led an international coalition in the Gulf War that drove Iraq out of occupied Kuwait. Bush was the father of George W. Bush, who later also became president. He died in 2018. Good to know: George H. W. Bush had previously been vice president under Ronald Reagan for eight years. Before his presidency Bush headed the CIA and was US ambassador to the United Nations. In 1991 Bush led an international coalition that drove Iraq out of occupied Kuwait. During Bush's term the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union fell: the end of the Cold War. His son George W. Bush also became president, in 2001. As a young naval aviator he was shot down over the Pacific in the Second World War and narrowly rescued.
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41st
Took office in 1989.
๐ก Did you know? George H. W. Bush had previously been vice president under Ronald Reagan for eight years.
vice president
VP under Ronald Reagan.
๐ก Did you know? Before his presidency Bush headed the CIA and was US ambassador to the United Nations.
Gulf War
Iraq was driven out of Kuwait.
๐ก Did you know? In 1991 Bush led an international coalition that drove Iraq out of occupied Kuwait.
end of the Cold War
Fall of the Wall and Soviet collapse.
๐ก Did you know? During Bush's term the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union fell: the end of the Cold War.
George W. Bush
The son also became president.
๐ก Did you know? His son George W. Bush also became president, in 2001.
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George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush was the 41st US president, under whom the Cold War ended and who led the 1991 Gulf War.
๐ก Did you know? As a young naval aviator he was shot down over the Pacific in the Second World War and narrowly rescued.
1924
Born: 12 June 1924 in Massachusetts
2018
Died: 30 November 2018, aged 94
Massachusetts
Born: 12 June 1924 in Massachusetts
94
Died: 30 November 2018, aged 94
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