This 1948 photo shows the Bush family in Midland, Texas, posing for a photograph. From left are: former US First Lady Barbara Bush, future 43rd US president George W. Bush, former US President George Bush, and his parents Dorothy Walker Bush and former US Senator Prescott Bush.
The people who decide the fate of mankind nowadays were not born politicians. In childhood and adolescence, they were the same as their peers, and now the lives and well-being of millions of people depend on them.
Here is a selection of photographs of the world’s most popular politicians from when they were children and teens, taken at a time when they did not even suspect what enormous power would be in their hands in the future.
We have collected photographs of kids destined to become the world’s future leaders.
