George H. W. Bush

41st President of the United States

January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993

George H.W. Bush started off with his entrepreneurial career immediately after college. He, along with John Overby, his neighbor, started the Bush-Overby Oil Development Co. in 1951. With funding from his family and folks, the business did quite well, with Herbert Walker playing a key role by investing more than half a million. Bush-Overby Oil Development Co. merged with Zapata Petroleum in 1953 and Bush became the President of Zapata Offshore.

Jimmy Carter

39th President of the United States

January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981

Jimmy Carter, a young and energetic man, decided to resign from the Navy to help the family farm which was in danger after the death of his father in 1953. He returned to Plains, Georgia to take up and run the struggling peanut farm. Carter unlike anybody else in the family threw himself into the family business of farming and reportedly Carter farm became prosperous by 1959, and the credit is of course vested upon Jimmy Carter.

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