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As the second son born to George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush, John Ellis (Jeb) Bush was born on February 11, 1953, in Midland, Texas, and first came home to 1412 W. Ohio Avenue. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Latin American Studies. He married Columba Garnica Gallo from Leon, Guanajato, Mexico in 1974, and they have three children: George Prescott, Noelle Lucila, and John Ellis (Jebby), Jr.
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Following severance from the navy, Bush enrolled at Yale University in September 1945. An ambitious, highly competitive student, he earned a B.A. in economics within three years. Although a married military veteran, Bush was nonetheless active in campus social and athletic activities (playing three years of varsity baseball and captaining the team). Following graduation in 1948, Bush became an oilfield supply salesman for Dresser Industries in Odessa, Texas. Rising quickly in an industry then in the midst of a postwar boom, in 1953 Bush started his own oil and gas drilling firm. After merging with another firm in 1955, Bush eventually (in September 1958) moved the corporate headquarters to Houston, Texas.
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Like his son George and grandson George W., Prescott Bush, was a Yale graduate and member of Yale’s secretive Skull and Bones Society. Before becoming senator from Connecticut (1952-1963), Prescott was the longest-sitting member of the board of directors of Dresser Industries, a Dallas-based oil drilling equipment supply company.
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In 1945, Bush married Barbara Pierce. Later that year, he began his college education at Yale University, where he excelled in his coursework and in sports. Following graduation, George and his young family departed the East Coast to set out upon a career in the oil industry of West Texas. He lived in Midland, Texas, from 1950 until 1959, when he moved to Houston.
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Before entering Yale in 1945, Bush married Barbara Pierce, the daughter of the publisher of McCall's and Redbook. Their first child was born during Bush's senior year of college. The couple eventually had six children, including a daughter who died of leukemia in 1953.
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After obtaining an MBA from Harvard University,[31] Bush entered the oil industry in Texas. In 1977, he was introduced by friends to Laura Welch, a schoolteacher and librarian. They married and settled in Midland, Texas. Bush left his family's Episcopal Church to join his wife's United Methodist Church.[2]
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