George W. Bush (President McCain)

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States. He served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and as the Vice President of the United States in the administration of John McCain (2001–2009).

Bush is the eldest son of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush. After graduating from Yale University, Bush worked in his family's oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards to become Governor of Texas in 1994.

In 2008, Bush launched a successful campaign to succeed McCain as president, defeating Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency; operations were conducted in Syria and Pakistan while he led the League of Democracies in demanding that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons programme. Domestically, Bush followed President McCain's economic and domestic reforms, including energy independence and health care reforms.