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George Herbert Walker Bush, the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, presented his credentials to the Secretary-General, U Thant in February 1973. He was accompanied by the United Nations Assistant Chief of Protocol, Mohamed Tabiti. |
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Mr. Bush was elected to the United States Congress in 1966 as a Representative from the Seventh District of Texas (Houston and Harris County). He was re-elected in 1968 and served until January 1971. |
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He was born on 12 June 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of a former Senator from Connecticut, Prescott Bush. George Bush attended |
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Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, and Yale |
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University, where he was graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. degree in economics in 1948. |
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During the Second World War, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy in 1942 and served as a carrier pilot in the Pacific Fleet. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three air medals, and left the Navy as a lieutenant junior grade in 1945. |
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Mr. Bush took up residence in Texas in 1948 and became active in the oil field supply and royalty business. He founded the Zapata Petroleum Corporation in 1953 and the Zapata Off-Shore Company in 1954, but resigned from these companies in 1966 to run for Congress. Mr. Bush is a life-time trustee of Phillips Academy, a member of the National Advisory Council for the Episcopal Church Foundation and, prior to running for Congress, a member of the Executive Committee of the Harris County Economic Opportunity Act. |
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Mr. Bush has recently returned from a visit to Paris, The Hague, Brussels, Geneva, Vienna and Rome, where he observed the program activities of various international organizations. |
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He is married and has four sons and a daughter. |
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