When it comes to the interesting lives that a President leads before they become President, George Herbert Walker Bush sits near the top of the list. The man has held many positions and accomplished many things, including raising a son who would also reach the office of the presidency, but here are 7 things you don’t know about George Herbert Walker Bush.

1. Following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan In 1941, at the age of 18, George H.W. Bush became the youngest naval aviator in United States history.

2. The first President Bush played baseball on the Yale University baseball team and appeared in the first two College World Series ever played.

3. In 1988, while George H.W. Bush was running for President, his opponent Michael Dukakis’ running mate was Lloyd Bentsen. Bentsen had defeated Bush in 1970 in a race for the United States Senate.

4. George H.W. Bush won the first primary (Iowa) in the 1980 Republican Primary before eventually bowing out in the wake of Ronald Reagan’s successful candidacy for President.

5. The last Nimitz class supercarrier produced for the United States Navy was christened the USS George H.W. Bush.

6. When in 1966 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing the 7th District of Texas, in doing so he became the first Republican to represent the city of Houston.

7. George H.W. Bush was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993, he is the third President to have such an honor bestowed upon him after Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.

Only serving one term has led many to believe that George H.W. Bush was one of the least fascinating men to rise to the level of President of the United States of America. It is obvious looking at his history that this is far from the truth.