Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush was born on February 11, 1953, in Midland, Texas. He is the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush. The nickname ‘Jeb’ is composed of his initials J. E. B. and his Miami-Dade County, Florida, address, “Jeb E. Bush,” and his first name is ‘John’ He is married to Columba Garnica Gallo, and they have a son, George W. ‘George’ Bush, who is seven years older than his brother George.

About Jeb Bush in brief

Summary Jeb BushJeb Bush was born on February 11, 1953, in Midland, Texas. He is the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development, and in 1986 became Florida’s Secretary of Commerce until 1988. In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002, defeating Bill McBride and winning with 56 percent, to become Florida’s first two-term Republican governor. Bush announced his presidential candidacy on June 15, 2015. He suspended his campaign on February 20, 2016, shortly after the South Carolina primary and endorsed Senator Ted Cruz on March 23, 2016. The nickname ‘Jeb’ is composed of his initials J. E. B. and his Miami-Dade County, Florida, address, “Jeb E. Bush,” and his first name is ‘John.’ He is married to Columba Garnica Gallo, and they have a son, George W. ‘George’ Bush, who is seven years older than his brother George.

He has two younger brothers, Neil and Marvin, one younger sister, Dorothy, one older brother, George, and, for the first eight months of his life, an older sister, Robin. Bush registered for the draft after his graduation from high school in 1971. In the fourth and final draft lottery drawing, on February 2, 1972, for men born in 1953 and to be inducted during 1973, Bush received a draft number of 26 on a calendar-based scale that went to 365. But no new draft orders were issued after 1972, because the U.S. changed to an all-volunteer military beginning in 1973. Bush met his future wife, Columba, while in Mexico, and the couple married in 1998. Bush has two sons with his ex-wife Columba and one son with his current wife, Maria. He and his wife have a daughter, Chelsea, and a son-in-law, George E. “George W.” Bush, Jr., who is also a former Florida governor and served as Florida’s governor from 2003 to 2007. Bush and his family live in Florida and have a home in Miami, Florida. Bush lives with his wife and three children in Coral Springs, Florida and his daughter in Florida. He also has a daughter with his second wife, Gail, who lives in Miami. Bush is a married father-of-three and a stepfather to two sons, George “Mike” George and George ‘Mike’ George.