BUSH, George W.

George W. Bush Signed Republic of Texas Sesquicentennial First Day Cover.

San Antonio, Texas: , 1986.

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Rare Original 1986 First Day Cover Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Texas; Signed by George W. Bush

Rare commemorative first day cover produced for the 150th Anniversary of Texas signed by George W. Bush. Republic of Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986 envelope depicting the Alamo in blue, postmarked "San Antonio, Texas March 2, 1986", with a San Jacinto 1836 Republic of Texas worth 22 cents to the top right corner. Boldly signed by George W. Bush in black felt tip to the bottom right. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation that existed from 1836 to 1846, born of revolution against Mexican rule and extinguished by annexation into the United States — a brief but consequential chapter in North American political history that has exercised an outsized influence on Texas's enduring sense of cultural and political identity. Following the decisive Texian victory at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836 — where General Sam Houston's forces routed the army of Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna just weeks after the catastrophic defeat at the Alamo — Texas declared its independence and established a constitutional republic modeled closely on American democratic institutions, with Houston serving as its first president. The republic's decade of independent existence was marked by chronic financial instability, ongoing conflict with Mexico and with Comanche forces on the frontier, and a persistent and ultimately successful campaign for annexation by the United States, which was achieved in December 1845 and triggered the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the T.B.E. Corporation and signed by Thomas B. Eisaman.

George Walker Bush (born 1946) served as the forty-third President of the United States from January 2001 to January 2009, presiding over what proved to be one of the most consequential and contested periods in modern American history. The son of the forty-first president, George H.W. Bush, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, he served as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before defeating Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. The defining event of his presidency came on September 11, 2001, when coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda killed nearly three thousand people and fundamentally reoriented American foreign and domestic policy. In the months and years that followed, Bush launched the War in Afghanistan to dismantle al-Qaeda and remove the Taliban government that had harbored it, signed into law the USA PATRIOT Act and oversaw the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and in March 2003 ordered the invasion of Iraq. His domestic legacy includes the No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which is widely credited with saving millions of lives in sub-Saharan Africa. Since leaving the White House, Bush has largely withdrawn from partisan politics, taking up oil painting and publishing a memoir, Decision Points (2010), as well as a portrait collection of world leaders and American veterans.