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Who is George W. Bush?

Part 1: son, baby boomer, husband, father, business man

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

Originally written prior to the Presidential Election of 2000, this information is provided "as is" and some information and links may be slightly out-of-date.

Fifty plus years of Bush
Can you judge a man based on his parents, his upbringing, and his family? How soon did he get to Texas and where did he grow up? Aside from politics what are his interests, passions, and pasttimes?

    Born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, CT and more of the basic facts (and a few extras) in more or less chronological order: Timeline

Yale, Oil, and Baseball
Educated in New England, he came back West for the wheeling, dealing, and The Texas Rangers - was he a business success or did he turn to running the State because it was less demanding than running a company or a baseball franchise? Which is more important to assessing his character - those wild years before age 40 or his reluctance to show us every skeleton in his closet? See what others have to say and draw your own conclusions.

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