After Dinner Speakers: George W Bush, Tony Allcock, Howard Hodgson

Bush is the son of former U.S. president George Bush. After serving in the Texas National Guard he worked in the oil and gas industries until 1986, when he got involved in his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign. He returned to Texas and was elected governor there in 1994 and again in 1998. Bush won the Republican nomination for president in August of 2000; in the November general election he ran against Democratic candidate Al Gore. After a post-election delay of a month while votes were recounted and lawsuits were filed on both sides, Gore conceded the election to Bush on December 13, 2000. Bush received fewer popular votes than Gore: the final official tally was 50,158,094 votes for Gore to 49,820,518 votes for Bush. However, Bush led in electoral votes 271 to 267.