- BUSH, JEB
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- Experience: Governor, State of Florida, 1998-2006
- Home State: Florida
- Running: President, United States, 2016
- Total Raised: $35,415,730Coverage End: Thursday, June 30, 2016
- Winning: Won with 0.00%
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Personal
- Full Name: John 'Jeb' Ellis Bush
- Gender: Male
- Family: Wife: Columba; 3 Children: George, Noelle, Jeb Jr.
- Birth Date: 02/11/1953
- Birth Place: Midland, TX
- Home City: Miami, FL
- Religion: Catholic
Education
- BA, Latin American Studies, University of Texas, 1974
Political Experience
- Governor, State of Florida, 1998-2006
- Candidate, Gubernatorial, Florida, 1994
- Chair, Florida Bush-Quayle, 1992
- Chair, Bob Martinez Re-election, 1990
- Secretary of Commerce, State of Florida, 1987-1988
- Chair, Republican Party of Dade County, 1984-1986
Professional Experience
- President/Chief Executive Officer, Codina Group, 1981-1986, 1988-1993, 1995-1997
- Representative/Vice President, Texas Commerce Bank, Venezuela, 1974-1979
Religious, Civic, and other Memberships
- Member, Dade County Homeless Trust
- Chair, Finance Committee, United Negro College Fund of South Florida
- Frmer Co-Chair, Floridians for Educational Choice
- Co-Founder/Board Member, Liberty City Charter School
- Member, Miami Children's Hospital Foundation
- Board Member, United Way of Dade County
- Member, Zoology Society of South Florida
- Founder/Chair, Foundation for Florida's Future, 1995-1997
- Chair, Presidency III, Republican Party of Florida, Presidential Preference Convention, 1995
- Chair, Beacon Council, 1990-1991
About Jeb Bush
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, John Ellis Bush (who prefers to go by his initials, JEB) studied and earned a degree in Latin American Affairs before beginning his career in politics. He became Florida's Secretary of Commerce in 1986, resigning two years later to support his father's (former President George Herbert Walker Bush) bid for the white house. After trying unsuccessfully to become Governor of Florida in 1994, Bush won the office in '98, beginning what would become the first two-term Republican gubernatorial administration in Florida's history. He announced his 2016 presidential candidacy on June 15, 2015, in Miami, Florida.
Jeb Bush has a solid conservative record on a number of issues from his term as Florida's Governor. He supports the death penalty, having held office during 21 executions and declining to commute any of the sentences. He reduced taxes while in office, as well as cut the size of state government, vetoed over $2 billion in new spending, and lowered funding for public projects including libraries and homework assistance programs.
GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has lined up endorsements from eight onetime Florida House Speakers in an implicit jab at his rival, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who held the role before joining the Senate.
By focusing so much on the candidates, consultants, and donors in political coverage, it’s easy to overlook the most important element in the political process—the voters.
Jeb Bush’s tour of the communities along the U.S.-Mexico border Monday was supposed to be a trip to distinguish his immigration plan as more realistic and grown-up than those of his presidential opponents. Instead, the former Florida governor was back defending what he really means when he says “anchor baby.”
In this predominantly Hispanic border town, Jeb Bush dismissed Donald Trump’s proposal of building a wall to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants through Mexico and called for “a comprehensive” border security strategy — and he did it mostly in Spanish.
Jeb Bush sought to go on offense against Donald Trump by hammering him Thursday for his rhetoric on immigration and by arguing that the real estate mogul is unelectable and not conservative.
Former President George W. Bush penned a fundraising letter sent out Thursday on behalf of his brother Jeb Bush, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush shifted into attack mode Thursday, railing against front-runner Donald Trump and accusing his billionaire rival of flooding the race with a “tidal wave of accusations [and] bombastic talk.”
It’s always the young ones who can’t quite navigate the family business.
Jeb Bush doesn’t want birthright citizenship to go away, but he is calling for stronger enforcement for people who abuse it.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is dismissing front-runner Donald Trump's immigration plan as impractical and destined to fail.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the U.S. government.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said that his brother’s successful overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein “turned out to be a pretty good deal” on Thursday while speaking at the APPS National Security Forum in Davenport, Iowa.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday the U.S. may need to send more ground troops into Iraq to defeat Islamic State (ISIS) militants, but he stopped short of saying how many as he outlined his strategy for combating a threat that's "spreading like a pandemic."
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday that in order to grow the economy “people need to work longer hours” -- a comment that the Bush campaign argues was a reference to underemployed part-time workers but which Democrats are already using to attack him.
After stumbling this week, Jeb Bush heads into Thursday's debate facing a key question: Is he ready to run for president in an era when every gaffe can go viral?
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