Profile
Prescott Bush
Former Us Senator + Father of George H.w. Bush
Male
Born
May 15, 1895
Hometown
Columbus, Ohio
Died
Oct 8, 1972
Nationality
American
Other Names
Bush, Prescott
Prescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush (43rd Governor of Florida… Read More
Family
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Prescott Bush
d.1972
parents
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Flora SheldonMother, d.1920
children
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Prescott Bush, Jr.Son, Age 90
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Nancy Bush EllisDaughter, Age 87
News + Updates
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Is There A President Jeb Bush In The White House's Future? The Moderate VoiceGoogle News - Aug 30, 2011
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The Return Of Neil Bush SalonGoogle News - Aug 28, 2011
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Why Congress Blocking The Debt Ceiling Increase Will Launch An Economic Boom The Market OracleGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
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'Big Easy Brides': She Is Your Cousin Huffington PostGoogle News - Aug 22, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1895
Birth
Born on May 15, 1895.
TEENAGE
1908
13 Years Old
Bush attended St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1908 to 1913.
1913
18 Years Old
In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, where his grandfather James Smith Bush, class of 1844, and his uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr., class of 1904, had matriculated.
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TWENTIES
1919
24 Years Old
After his discharge in 1919, Prescott Bush went to work for the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis, Missouri.
1921
26 Years Old
Bush married Dorothy Walker on August 6, 1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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The Bushes moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1923, where Prescott Bush briefly worked for the Hupp Products Company.
THIRTIES
1925
30 Years Old
In 1925, Bush joined the United States Rubber Company of New York City as manager of the foreign division, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.
1928
33 Years Old
Following his father-in-law, he was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928–1935.
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1931
36 Years Old
In 1931, Bush became a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which was created through the 1931 merger of A. Harriman & Co with Brown Bros. & Co. (a merchant bank founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1818) and with Harriman Brothers & Co. (established in New York City in 1927).
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1932
37 Years Old
Bush was on the board of directors of CBS, having been introduced to chairman William S. Paley around 1932 by his close friend and colleague William Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power-broker.
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FORTIES
A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations, but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.
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FIFTIES
1947
52 Years Old
From 1947 to 1950, he served as Connecticut Republican finance chairman, and was the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1950.
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1952
57 Years Old
Bush sought a rematch with Benton in 1952, but withdrew as the party turned to William Purtell.
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1954
59 Years Old
On December 2, 1954, Bush was part of the large (67–22) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, after McCarthy had taken on the U.S. Army and the Eisenhower administration.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1956
61 Years Old
He was reelected in 1956 with 55 percent of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Dodd (later U.S. Senator from Connecticut and father of the recent U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Christopher J. Dodd), and decided not to run for another term in 1962.
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Eisenhower later included Bush's name on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 GOP presidential nomination.
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1963
68 Years Old
A staunch supporter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bush served until January 1963.
1972
77 Years Old
He died in 1972 at age 77 and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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