George HW Bush, who has died aged 94, was the 41st president of the United States. Born in Milton, Massachusetts, he studied at Yale and worked in the oil industry before entering politics in 1964. This gallery will reveal his life, so don’t miss it!
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Official portrait of President George HW Bush by Herbert E Abrams, unveiled at the White House on 17 July 1995.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 during the second world war, Bush enlisted in the US Navy on his 18th birthday, becoming the youngest aviator in the navy at that time.
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George HW Bush and Barbara Pierce on their wedding day in Rye, New York, in January 1945.
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Captain of the Yale baseball team, Bush played in the first College World Series in 1947.
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As a congressman in 1968, Bush pins bars on his son George W’s uniform, representing his entry into the Texas air national guard as a 2nd lieutenant.
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George and Barbara in Beijing the year after President Gerald Ford appointed Bush as the chief of the US liaison office to China in 1973.
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Bush is sworn in as director of the CIA in January 1976.
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George and Barbara during the campaign for the presidential primary elections in 1978.
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Bush failed to become the Republican presidential nominee in 1980 but was chosen by Ronald Reagan to be his vice-presidential running mate and they were elected in November 1980. Here, Ford lends his support to the campaign in Peoria, Illinois.
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Bush campaigns successfully for the US presidency in 1988.
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The president-elect enjoys a spot of fishing in Florida in 1988.
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Bush takes the oath of office as the 41st president of the United States on 20 January 1989.
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A 1989 portrait of the Bush family in the White House.
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Bush and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, hold a press conference in Moscow after a two-day US-Soviet summit dedicated to the disarmament on 31 July 1991.
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Bush eats with troops in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield, in the build-up of troops before the Gulf war, in November 1991.
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Bush gives a speech during the last days of his re-election campaign in 1992. He was defeated by Bill Clinton.
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The political dynasty of George Sr, George Jr and Jeb in 2001.
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President George W Bush (C) welcomes (from L to R) his father, president-elect Barack Obama, and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to the Oval Office on 7 January 2009.
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