George H. W. Bush – POTUS
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7th Great-Grandparent of Donald D. Erwin |
8th Great-Grandparent of George H.W. Bush |
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Cornelia Melyn (1628-1717) |
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| Cornelius Schellinger (1658-1748) | Johanna Lopers (1650-1743) |
| Abraham Schellinger (1710-1759) | Cornelia Beekman (1693-1742) |
| Abigail Skillern (1740-1818) | James Livingston (1728-1790) |
| Anna Emily Coppock (1781-1870) | Gilbert James Livingston (1758-1833) |
| Nathaniel Haworth (1803-1871) | Judith Livingston (1785-1858) |
| James Nathanial Hayworth (1826-1901) | Courtland Phillip Butler (1813-1891) |
| Charles Ellis Hayworth (1866-1941) | Mary Elizabeth Butler (1850-1897) |
| Hazel Dell Hayworth Erwin (1889-1976) | Flora Sheldon (1872-1920) |
| Donald Dean Erwin (1933-) | Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1922) |
| George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-) | |
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently (2018) the oldest surviving president.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed going to college, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. A bit of trivia: he and wife Barbara lived for a short time in Bakersfield, California.
He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.
Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida. He is the most recent president to have been a World War II veteran. Until the election of his son George W. Bush to the presidency in 2000, Bush was commonly referred to simply as “George Bush“; since that time, the forms “George H. W. Bush”, “Bush 41”, “Bush the Elder”, and “George Bush, Sr.” have come into common use as a way to distinguish the father from the son.
George H. W. Bush