Jeb Bush - biography - Polictics

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (Midland, February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman. He was governor of Florida from 1998 to 2007.

Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush and brother of the 43rd US President, George Walker Bush. I was candidate for the Republican Party for President of the US1. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas, 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 secretary of Commerce of Florida until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's successful campaign for the presidency.

In 1994, Bush made his first run for governor but lost the election by less than two percentage points against the holder Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lt. Gov. Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for re-election in 2002 and won with 56%, becoming the first re-elected Republican governor in Florida. Bush announced his presidential candidacy on June 15, 2015

Biography

Jeb Bush is the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush and brother of President George Walker Bush. Your name "Jeb" is the acronym of their two names and their name, John Ellis Bush. Married Columba Garnica Gallo Mexican and converted to his wife's religion, Catholicism. They have three children: George Prescott, Noelle and John Ellis Bush, Jr.

As a young man, he chose to go to Mexico to teach English in an exchange program in high school. He studied at the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. He graduated in petroleum engineering. He speaks almost perfect Spanish and has a degree in Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin; She lived in Mexico and Venezuela and has done business with many Latin Americans.

Although many family members had attended Yale University, Bush chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin, in September 1971. He played in five Texas Longhorns, team tennis school in 1973. He graduated being part of the Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in latinoamericanos.6 He completed his studies course in two and a half years.
He began his career in 1975 when he joined the Texas Commerce Bank, thanks to the intervention of James Baker, a close friend of his father who then held senior positions in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Bush.

In 1977, he was sent to Caracas to boost the bank's business, but returned in 1980 as a volunteer in his father's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, finally lost to Reagan, but this made him vice president. It was the end of that campaign that he and his family settled in Miami and began to relate to groups, many of them Latinos and especially Cuban local businesses. 

Florida Gov. 

Bush left Texas and moved to Florida in the early 1980s to work as a real estate broker. In 1987 and 1988, he held his first government post as secretary of Commerce of Florida. Bush made his first run for office as a Republican candidate for governor of the state in 1994, but lost the election by a small margin against Governor Lawton Chiles. However, he was victorious in his second attempt in 1998.

In 2006, by prohibiting the Florida state law to apply for a third consecutive term, he left the state government in 2007, after eight years in office. He is known for his work in the state's education system, its efforts to protect the environment and achievements in improving the state's economy.

Bush family

Republican candidate 

After Mitt Romney's defeat in the elections of November 2012, the name of Bush, among other significant leaders insistently mentioned as a figure of turnover in a Republican Party that desperately needs a new image. In particular, it appreciates the strong potential that can have among Latino voters, who both moved away from the Republican Party in the last two comicios.9

In June 2015, he announced that he would run for the presidential elections in 2016.10

But the February 20, 2016, after learning that in primary in South Carolina reached only 10% of the votes, he decided to end his candidacy presidencial.11

Electoral history 

2002 Race for Governor

Jeb Bush (R) (inc.), 56%

Bill McBride (D), 43%

1998 Race for Governor '

Jeb Bush (R), 55%

Buddy MacKay (D), 45%

1994 Race for Governor '

Lawton Chiles (D) (inc.), 51%

Jeb Bush (R), 49%

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