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In full:
George Herbert Walker Bush
Born:
June 12, 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died:
November 30, 2018, Houston, Texas (aged 94)
Also Known As:
George Herbert Walker Bush
Political Affiliation:
Republican Party
Notable Family Members:
spouse Barbara Bush
father Prescott S. Bush
son Jeb Bush
son George W. Bush
Role In:
Persian Gulf War
Somalia intervention
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
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Bush and his wife, Barbara, returned to Houston on the day of Clinton’s inauguration and had little formal involvement with the Republican Party thereafter. His son George W. Bush, a popular two-term governor of Texas, successfully ran for president in 2000, becoming the second son of a president to win the White House; the first was John Quincy Adams in 1824. Another son, Jeb, served as governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007 and unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016. In 2005 former presidents Bush and Clinton appeared in a series of televised advertisements to raise funds for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) and Hurricane Katrina (2005). Bush was named UN special envoy for the disaster resulting from the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2011 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Cabinet of Pres. George H.W. Bush

The table provides a list of cabinet members in the administration of Pres. George H.W. Bush.

Cabinet of President George H.W. Bush
January 20, 1989–January 20, 1993
*Newly created department.
State James Addison Baker III
Treasury Nicholas Frederick Brady
Attorney General Richard Lewis (Dick) Thornburgh
William P. Barr (from November 20, 1991)
Interior Manuel Lujan, Jr.
Agriculture Clayton Keith Yeutter
Edward Madigan (from March 7, 1991)
Commerce Robert Adam Mosbacher
Labor Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Defense Dick Cheney
Health and Human Services Louis Wade Sullivan
Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp
Transportation Samuel K. Skinner
Andrew H. Card (from January 22, 1992)
Energy James David Watkins
Education Lauro Fred Cavazos, Jr.
Lamar Alexander (from March 14, 1991)
Veterans Affairs* Edward Joseph Derwinski (from March 15, 1989)
This article was most recently revised and updated by Mindy Johnston.