page_title: Dwight L. Bush Sr.
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Dwight L. Bush Sr. / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: A program on Cornell's Contributions to American Foreign Policy, held at Zankel Hall within Carnegie Hall in New York. From left to right: Dwight Bush ’79, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco; Derek Chollet ’93, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 2012 to 2015; Walter LaFeber, Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History; Stephen Hadley ’69, National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009; Makila James ’79, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland from 2012 to 2015; and Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government.
context_page_description: Dwight Lamar Bush Sr. is an American businessman who was the United States Ambassador to Morocco from 2014 to 2017.
context_section_description: Bush was born in East St. Louis, Illinois.  One of five siblings, he has credited his parents for "[making] sure that their children could fully participate in the American Dream."
  He attended Cornell University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in government in 1979 and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.  He has credited Cornell's noted history professor Walter LaFeber, among others at the university, for sparking his interest in world affairs.  He said in 2016, "I show up at Cornell and start to meet scholars. ... If I had not had the Cornell experience, it's highly unlikely I’d be where I am today."
caption: Bush (at left) at a 2016 panel session discussing the influence of Cornell University on American foreign policy
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