George HW Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has died at age 94.
Mr Bush served one term as president from 1989 to 1993.
He also served as a congressman, CIA director and Ronald Reagan's vice-president.
As the last US president to have served in World War II and the country's last Cold War leader, the end of Mr Bush's time in the White House marked the end of a political era.
But Mr Bush will perhaps be best remembered as the commander-in-chief who sanctioned the Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Storm.
His eldest son, George W Bush, went on to become the 43rd US president.
Mr Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, had six children and were married for 73 years — the longest presidential marriage in US history.
Mrs Bush died in April 2018.
At Mrs Bush's funeral, son and former Florida governor Jeb Bush said he believed the last time his mother got sick that his dad got sick on purpose so he could be with her.
"Our family has had a front-row seat to the most amazing love story," Jeb Bush said.
In a letter to his wife on January 6, 1994, Mr Bush said she had given him "joy that few men know".
"I've climbed, perhaps, the highest mountain in the world but even that cannot hold a candle to being Barbara's husband," he wrote.
The White House
Republican candidate George HW Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis in November 1988 in a 40-state sweep.
His presidency coincided with a period of world upheaval that saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the start of America's post-Cold War conflicts.
During his campaign Mr Bush pledged at the Republican National Convention his now-famous phrase:
"Read my lips: no news taxes".
However, once in office, he reneged on that promise and raised several taxes in an attempt to reduce the national budget deficit in a compromise deal with Congressional Democrats.
Just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr Bush launched Operation Just Cause in December 1989.
Thousands of US troops were sent into Panama and the country's leader, Manuel Noriega, was arrested on drug trafficking charges and extradited to the US to face trial.
The campaign was over within weeks — one of the most tactically successful military operations in US history.
