Timeline of George H.W. Bush's life in Texas

Former President George H.W. Bush died Friday at age 94. Born in Massachusetts, Bush studied at Yale University and held various posts in Washington, D.C., but he spent much of his life in Texas:

1943 — After enlisting in the Navy in 1942, he learns to fly airplanes at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, earning his gold wings.

1948 — Upon graduating from Yale, he moves his family, including his son George W., to Odessa in West Texas to make his way in the oil industry.

1950 — After work takes him to California, he transfers to Midland.

1951 — Starts the Bush-Overby Oil Development Co.

1952 — Manages the American Legion baseball team in Midland.

1953 — Co-founds the Zapata Petroleum Corp. Son Jeb is born in Midland.

1954 — Becomes president of Zapata Offshore Co.

1955 — Son Neil is born in Midland.

1956 — Son Marvin is born in Houston.

1959 — Moves Zapata Offshore from Midland to Houston; serves as its president until 1964 and chairman until 1966. Daughter Dorothy is born in Houston.

1962 — Becomes chairman of the Harris County Republican Party.

1964 — Loses to Democrat Ralph Yarborough in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas.

1966 — Wins election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas’ Seventh District, becoming the first Republican to represent Houston, and serves two terms.

1970 — Loses a U.S. Senate race to Democrat Lloyd Bentsen. Goes on to serve in a series of high-level positions, including chairman of the Republican National Committee, ambassador to the United Nations and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

1977 — Becomes chairman of the executive committee of First International Bank in Houston.

1978 — Serves for a year as a part-time professor of administrative science at Rice University.

1980 — Campaigns for the GOP nomination for president and loses, subsequently selling his house in Houston and buying his grandfather’s estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.

1988 — After serving as Ronald Reagan’s vice president for two terms, wins election to the White House.

1989 — Declares Houston his legal residence for voting and other purposes – specifically, Suite 271 of the Houstonian Hotel. Delivers the commencement address at Texas A&M University.

1991 — Announces that his presidential library will be at A&M. Although Bush didn’t attend that school, he chose it for its proximity to his home in Houston, its strong ties to military and intelligence communities, conservative values and the offer of free land.

1992 — Nominated for re-election at the GOP convention in Houston’s Astrodome, but loses to Democrat Bill Clinton in a race that includes third-party candidate Ross Perot of Texas.

1993 — Upon leaving the White House, retires with his wife, Barbara, and moves back to Houston. They build a house in the Tanglewood area, where they previously owned two homes.

1997 — George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opens to the public. It’s part of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center, a 90-acre area at Texas A&M that is also home to the Bush School of Government and Public Service, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation and the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center.

1999 — Skydives onto the lawn at his presidential library at A&M to celebrate his 75th birthday.

2002 — Becomes chairman of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, of which he is also a life member.

2004 — Skydives at his presidential library at A&M tethered to a member of the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team to celebrate his 80th birthday.

2007 — At 83, celebrates the reopening of his presidential library, following major remodeling, by skydiving at A&M while strapped to a Golden Knights team member.

November 2012 — Enters Houston Methodist Hospital for treatment of a lingering cough.

January 2013 — Discharged from the hospital.

June 2014 — Celebrates 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Maine.

November 2014 — Attends Texas A&M University event with his son to launch George W.’s new book, “41: A Portrait of My Father.” His grandson, George P. Bush, is elected Texas land commissioner.

December 2014 — Admitted to Houston Methodist for about a week for shortness of breath.

March 2015 — Attends a Texas Children’s Cancer Center gala in Houston where George W. is interviewed by longtime CBS host Bob Schieffer.

April 2015 — A government report reveals that the Secret Service took more than a year to replace a broken alarm system at his home in Houston.

November 2015 — Conducts the coin toss before the football game between the University of Houston and the Naval Academy. Meets with Bretagne, a golden retriever that served as a 9/11 search dog, and handler Denise Corliss at his presidential library.

January 2016 — Attends the dedication of a bridge over Buffalo Bayou in Houston in honor of Robert A. Mosbacher Sr., the late oilman who served as Bush’s commerce secretary.

April 2016 — Throws the ceremonial first pitch from his wheelchair for a game between the Houston Astros and Kansas City Royals.

November 2016 — Attends the 75th anniversary gala for MD Anderson, where Vice President Joe Biden said America yearns for the standard of “absolute dignity, grace and conviction” that the former president set for political discourse.

December 2016 — Marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at his namesake library.

January 2017 — Admitted to Houston Methodist for more than two weeks because of pneumonia along with wife Barbara, who had bronchitis and was released a week earlier.

February 2017 — Flips the coin at NRG Stadium in Houston for the Super Bowl contest between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons.

March 2017 — Receives, along with his wife, the Mensch Award for service and friendship to the Jewish community at a ceremony at Congregation Beth Israel in Houston.

April 2017 — Admitted to Houston Methodist for two weeks for a mild case of pneumonia and chronic bronchitis.

May 2017 — Dines with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, at upscale Houston restaurant Arcodoro.

October 2017 — Gathers on stage at the opening of a hurricane relief concert at Texas A&M with the other four living former presidents: George W., Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Joins George W. as the son throws the ceremonial first pitch for Game 5 of the World Series between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

April 2018 — Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at home in west Houston with her husband at her side two days after a family spokesman said she was in failing health and no longer seeking medical treatment. The 41st president shakes hands with the public at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, where a rose-draped casket held his wife of 73 years. Later, he greets mourners at her funeral at the presidential library at A&M, where she was buried. The former president is hospitalized the next day, and for about two weeks, at Houston Methodist after contracting an infection that spread to his blood.

May 2018 — Visited by the cast of the Broadway show “Hamilton.” “A complete joy to welcome the ‘HamFam’ — the cast and crew of @HamiltonMusical — to our Houston office for a special performance I will never forget,” Bush tweets.

Nov. 30, 2018 — The 41st president dies at his home in Houston.

Sources: American-Statesman staff research, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, White House