( CNN ) -- George H. W. Bush was the 41st president . But to younger generations , he may be more recognizable as the father of George W. Bush , the 43rd president . The elder Bush is also the father of Former Florida Gov . Jeb Bush , a possible contender for the White House in 2016 , and the grandfather of George P. Bush , an aspiring Latino politician in Texas . His family aside , George H.W . Bush 's presidency was marked by the first Gulf War and a sluggish economy . Bush also served two terms as Ronald Reagan 's vice president and is a former CIA director . Among the little known facts about the former president : `` Well , I like a colorful sock . I 'm a sock man , '' Bush told his granddaughter the Today Show 's Jenna Bush Hager in a sit-down interview on his 88th birthday . Here 's a look back , by the numbers , at George Herbert Walker Bush 's career. : . 88 - Age of the oldest living former president , George H. W. Bush . 3 1/2 - Months Bush is older than Jimmy Carter , the second oldest former president . 2 - Number of presidents with sons who also became president : George H. W. and George W. Bush , and John and John Quincy Adams . 58 - Combat missions Bush completed while serving as a World War II naval aviator . 6 - Number of children of George and Barbara Bush : George W , Robin , Jeb , Neil , Marvin , and Doro . Robin died of leukemia as a child in 1953 . 426 - Electoral votes Bush received in the 1988 presidential election , with 53 % of the vote , defeating Democratic challenger Michael Dukakis . 168 - Electoral College votes he received in 1992 , losing to Bill Clinton , who received 370 . 39 - Nations in the allied coalition to liberate Kuwait in the 1991 Persian Gulf War . 1,000 - Individuals recognized by President George H.W . Bush as a winner of the `` Daily Point of Light Award '' for volunteer service in 1990 . A non-profit organization was created later to administer the awards . 25 - Percent reduction in the number of U.S. ballistic missile warheads after President George H.W . Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in July 1991 . 35 - Percent reduction in the number of Soviet ballistic missile warheads under the treaty . 1 - Number of directors of the CIA who have become president of the United States . Bush was the `` chief spy '' for about a year from January 1976 to January 1977 . 1 - Number of U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations who have become president of the United States . Bush served from March 1971 to February 1973 . 6 - Number of people associated with the Iran-Contra scandal pardoned by President George H.W . Bush in 1992 , including former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger . 44 - Vetoes by President George H. W. Bush . Some of the legislation included increasing the minimum wage , the Civil Rights Act of 1990 , Chinese most-favored-nation trade status , and motor voter laws . 38 million - Records documenting the life of former President George H. W. Bush archived in the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum , at Texas A & M University in College Station , Texas . 1,092 ft - Length of the U.S.S . George H.W . Bush ( CVN-77 ) , a Nimitz-class Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 2009 .
2 - Number of presidents with a son who became president . 426 - Electoral votes Bush received in the 1988 presidential election . 168 - Electoral College votes he received in 1992 , losing to Bill Clinton , who received 370 . Comment: