Editing Jeb Bush (section)

==Early life==
Jeb Bush was born on February 11, 1953, in [[Midland, Texas]]. When he was six years old, the family relocated to the [[Tanglewood, Houston|Tanglewood]] neighborhood<ref name="RMcCrimTXTrib03172015">{{cite news|last=McCrimmon|first=Ryan|date=March 17, 2015|title=In Texas, a Focused Jeb Bush Stood Out From the Crowd|url=http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/17/jeb-bush-texas-years/|newspaper=[[Texas Tribune]]|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|access-date=May 24, 2015|archive-date=April 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405082002/http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/17/jeb-bush-texas-years/|url-status=live}}</ref> of [[Houston]], [[Texas]].<ref name="NGA">{{cite web|title=Florida Governor Jeb Bush|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_florida/col2-content/main-content-list/title_bush_jeb.html|publisher=National Governors Association|access-date=May 5, 2014|archive-date=May 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505080852/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_florida/col2-content/main-content-list/title_bush_jeb.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The nickname "Jeb" is composed of his initials J.E.B. (John Ellis Bush).<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeb Bush's Pros and Cons|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/jeb-bushs-pros-and-cons_b_6330710.html|website=The Huffington Post|date=December 16, 2014|access-date=June 14, 2015|archive-date=June 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617171833/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/jeb-bushs-pros-and-cons_b_6330710.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Entire Bush family.jpg|thumb|left|Bush (front right) with family, early 1960s]]
He grew up with two younger brothers, [[Neil Bush|Neil]] and [[Marvin Bush|Marvin]], one younger sister, [[Dorothy Bush Koch|Dorothy]], one older brother, [[George W. Bush|George]], who is seven years older, and, for the first eight months of his life, an older sister, [[Pauline Robinson Bush|Robin]]. Jeb Bush initially attended Grady Elementary School in Houston.<ref>"[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F640A5D0899F681&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Long-held values shape Public Life of Jeb Bush] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511140516/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F640A5D0899F681&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=May 11, 2013}}." ''[[The Miami Herald]]''. September 22, 2002. Retrieved on October 15, 2012. "Bush attended public Grady Elementary School in Houston for several years[...]"</ref> Following in the footsteps of his father and older brother George, at the age of 14 years in late 1967,<ref name="RMcCrimTXTrib03172015"/> Bush began attending high school at the [[Andover, Massachusetts]] boarding school [[Phillips Academy]], Andover.<ref name="boston050314">{{cite web|title=Jeb Bush gives Andover kids Republic insight|url=https://www.boston.com/names/2012/10/03/jeb-bush-gives-andover-kids-republic-insight/Au73DySj6enp0gbU4F68oL/story.html|publisher=Boston.com|access-date=May 5, 2014|archive-date=May 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505075957/http://www.boston.com/names/2012/10/03/jeb-bush-gives-andover-kids-republic-insight/Au73DySj6enp0gbU4F68oL/story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Bush completed ninth grade in Houston, but was advised to repeat it at Andover, and was nearly expelled due to poor grades.<ref name="MKranish">{{cite news|last1=Kranish|first1=Michael|title=Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/02/01/tumultuous-four-years-phillips-academy-helped-shape-jeb-bush/q6ccyHNOtP1n6kqDokMBfK/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP&google_editors_picks=true|access-date=January 31, 2015|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=February 1, 2015|archive-date=February 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203011930/http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/02/01/tumultuous-four-years-phillips-academy-helped-shape-jeb-bush/q6ccyHNOtP1n6kqDokMBfK/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP&google_editors_picks=true|url-status=live}}</ref> Bush recreationally used [[marijuana]], [[hashish]], and cigarettes during his high school years, although he made the [[Honors student|honor roll]] by the end of his senior year and served as captain of the tennis team.<ref name="MKranish"/>

At the age of 17, Bush taught English as a second language and assisted in the building of a school in Ibarrilla, a small village outside of [[León, Guanajuato]], [[Mexico]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Kruse|first=Michael|date=May 21, 2015|title=Andover, Mexico and the Making of Jeb Bush|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/05/andover-mexico-and-the-making-of-jeb-bush/002218-031750.html#.VWHF1U_BzGc|newspaper=Politico|location=Washington, DC|access-date=May 25, 2015|quote=Before the Andover boys and teacher John J. Patrick helped build the two-room schoolhouse in Ibarrilla, outside of León, in their two-month trip in 1971, the village had no school at all—only a local woman who volunteered to teach the children who were interested in learning rudimentary reading and math skills.|archive-date=May 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524154859/http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/05/andover-mexico-and-the-making-of-jeb-bush/002218-031750.html#.VWHF1U_BzGc|url-status=live}}</ref> as part of Andover's student exchange summer program.<ref name="CastroOcalaStar99">{{cite news|last=Guevara-Castro|first=Lillian|date=May 5, 1999|title=Florida's First Lady: Columba Bush settles into life in the governor's mansion|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19990505&id=CEAxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6802,1531897&hl=en|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|location=[[Ocala, Florida]]|access-date=March 22, 2015|quote=Columba Garnica Gallo was 16 and John Ellis "Jeb" Bush was 17 when they met in the central Mexican town of León. Jeb was teaching English and helping to build a school as an exchange student from Phillips Academy, a prestigious prep school in Andover, Mass.|archive-date=October 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028135203/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19990505&id=CEAxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6802%2C1531897&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> While in Mexico, he met his future wife, [[Columba Bush|Columba Garnica Gallo]].<ref name="CastroOcalaStar99"/><ref name="style">{{cite news|title=Hispanic consciousness lends weight to Jeb Bush as GOP eyes 2016 presidential race|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hispanic-consciousness-lends-weight-to-jeb-bush-as-gop-eyes-2016-presidential-race/2013/04/24/ed830402-aa9a-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 24, 2013|access-date=February 9, 2015|archive-date=January 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150126041606/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hispanic-consciousness-lends-weight-to-jeb-bush-as-gop-eyes-2016-presidential-race/2013/04/24/ed830402-aa9a-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Bush, who had largely avoided criticizing or supporting the [[Vietnam War]], registered for the [[Conscription in the United States|draft]] after his graduation from high school in 1971.<ref name="MKranish"/> In the fourth and final draft lottery drawing, on February 2, 1972, for men born in 1953 and to be inducted during 1973, Bush received a draft number of 26 on a calendar-based scale that went to 365. But no new draft orders were issued after 1972,<ref>{{cite web|title=Results from Lottery Drawing – Vietnam Era – 1973|url=http://www.sss.gov/lotter4.htm|access-date=July 21, 2015|publisher=Selective Service System|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210195612/http://www.sss.gov/lotter4.htm|archive-date=February 10, 2015}}</ref> because the U.S. changed to an all-volunteer military beginning in 1973.<ref>Janowitz, Morris and Charles C. Moskos, Jr. "Five Years of the All-Volunteer Force: 1973–1978. ''Armed Forces & Society'', Jan 1979; vol. 5: pp. 171–218 {{Cite journal|url=http://afs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/2/171|title=Five Years of the All-Volunteer Force: 1973-1978|journal=Armed Forces & Society |date=January 1979 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=171–218 |doi=10.1177/0095327X7900500201 |access-date=July 21, 2015|archive-date=March 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312015216/http://afs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/2/171|url-status=bot: unknown |last1=Janowitz |first1=Morris |last2=Moskos |first2=Charles C. |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Though many in his family had attended [[Yale University]], Bush chose to attend the [[University of Texas at Austin]], beginning in September 1971.<ref name="RMcCrimTXTrib03172015"/> He played on the [[Texas Longhorns]] varsity tennis team in 1973.<ref name="RMcCrimTXTrib03172015"/> Bush graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and ''[[magna cum laude]]'' with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[Latin American studies]].<ref name="RMcCrimTXTrib03172015"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/politics/jeb-bush-gives-party-something-to-think-about.html|title=Jeb Bush Gives Party Something to Think About|date=May 25, 2014|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 17, 2017|archive-date=July 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709074747/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/politics/jeb-bush-gives-party-something-to-think-about.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He completed his coursework in two and a half years.<ref>Kelley, Kitty.  ''[[The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty]]'', p. 404 (Doubleday, 2004).</ref>