HOUSTON (AP) — Former US President George H.W. Bush has died. He was 94.
The World War II hero, who presided during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the final months of the Cold War, died late Friday night at his Houston home, said family spokesman Jim McGrath.
His wife of more than 70 years, Barbara Bush, died in April 2018.
He lost his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton in a campaign in which businessman H. Ross Perot took almost 19 percent of the vote as an independent candidate.
Still, he lived to see his son, George W., twice elected to the presidency — only the second father-and-son chief executives, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
The 43rd president issued a statement following his father's death, saying the elder Bush "was a man of the highest character."
