George HW Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94

Author: Reid Nakamura / Source: TheWrap

Former President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and became only the second president to father another president, George W. Bush, has died. He was 94.

“Jeb, Nell, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died,” George W.

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. “George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character, and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41’s life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens.”

Since at least 2012, Bush had been confined to a wheelchair due to vascular parkinsonism, a form of Parkinson’s disease.

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The former president’s death comes just months after the passing of his wife Barbara Bush, who died in April.

Bush was born June 12, 1924 to Connecticut senator and Wall Street banker Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker in Milton, Massachusetts. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Bush enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday, going on to become a distinguished pilot with 58 combat missions to his name during World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action and honorably discharged in 1945.

After leaving the Navy, Bush enrolled at Yale University, where he was president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and captain of the baseball team. He also married his high school…

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