Former president George H.W. Bush dead at 94: report

Former President George H.W. Bush has died at age 94.

He served as the 41st president, from 1989 to 1993, and as vice president to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989. His son, George W. Bush, was the 43rd president of the United States.

Bush, who was born in Milton, Massachusetts, first entered politics in 1964 with an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in Texas.

He won a House seat two years later and lost another Senate bid in 1970, and President Richard Nixon appointed the following year him as ambassador to the United Nations.

Bush went on to serve as chairman of the Republican National Committee, U.S. envoy to China, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

He launched an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1980 and was eventually selected as Reagan's running mate, and he defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis after serving two terms as vice president.

Bush was president during the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he launched a 1990 military action Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

He lost his re-election campaign in 1992 to Bill Clinton after breaking his "no new taxes" pledge.