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George Walker Bush is an American politician who dished up as the 43rd Chief executive of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest child of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale School in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he proved helpful in engine oil businesses. He hitched Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives soon thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. He was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial election against Al Gore, becoming the fourth president to be elected while getting fewer popular votes countrywide than an challenger. He is the second president to obtain been the child of a past president, the first having been John Quincy Adams. He's also the sibling of Jeb Bush, a past Governor of Florida and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election. Eight calendar months into Bush's first term as president, the Sept 11 terrorist problems happened. Bush responded using what became known as the Bush Doctrine: launching a "War on Terror," an international military campaign including the warfare in Afghanistan, in 2001, and the Iraq War, in 2003. He also marketed policies on the overall economy, healthcare, education, communal security reform, and amending the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. He authorized into law broad tax slashes, the Patriot Action, the No Child LEFT OUT Action, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Action, Medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors, and funding for the Products relief program known as PEPFAR. His tenure observed countrywide debates on immigration, Community Security, electronic monitoring, and torture.

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