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The Bush family in the Current region Place of origin Estate(s) The Bush family is an American dynastic family that is prominent in the fields of Best known for their involvement in politics, family members have held various national and state offices spanning across four generations, including that of U.S. senator ( Biographer Relatives [ ] • • • Flora Sheldon Bush (1870–1920), wife of Samuel P. Bush (married June 20, 1894) and mother to Prescott Bush • • Dorothy Wear Walker Bush (1901–1992), wife of Prescott, was a daughter of • Prescott Sheldon "Pressy" Bush Jr. (1922–2010), Prescott Bush's eldest son, who served as chairman of the United States-China Chamber of Commerce; married to Elizabeth "Beth" Kauffman ( 1922– 2014) on December 30, 1944 • Prescott Sheldon Bush III ( 1945– 2009), son of Prescott Bush Jr.; married to Francesca Emerson Farr on June 28, 1970 • Kelsey Bush-Nadeau, daughter of Prescott Bush Jr.; married to Philip Gerald Nadeau on May 25, 1974 • Elizabeth Nadeau, daughter of Kelsey Bush-Nadeau • Katherine Nadeau, daughter of Kelsey Bush-Nadeau • William F. Nadeau, son of Kelsey Bush-Nadeau, • Prescott Nadeau, son of Kelsey Bush-Nadeau • James Laurence "Jamie" Bush, son of Prescott Bush Jr.; married to Susan C. "Sue" Bush • Sarah Bush Richey, daughter of James L. Bush; married to William "Drake" Richey • Draper Dennis Richey • George Laurence Richey • Beatrice • Samuel P. Bush, son of James L. Bush • Auden • Elliot • • • • • • Cora Georgia Coyne (born Sep...

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George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924. His parents, Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, moved the family to Greenwich, Connecticut, when George was a young boy. His family was wealthy but his parents raised their children to be modest, stressing the importance of public service and giving back to society. An investment banker, Prescott Bush later became a Republican senator from Connecticut, serving from 1952 until 1963. Bush left home as a teenager to attend Phillips Academy Andover, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. At Andover, Bush was captain of the baseball and soccer teams, and the senior class president. He graduated on his eighteenth birthday in 1942. That same day, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He served in the Navy during World War II from 1942 until September 1945. When he became a pilot in July 1943, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy. He flew torpedo bombers in the Pacific theater and went on fifty-eight combat missions during the war. On September 2, 1944, while flying a mission to bomb an enemy radio site, his plane was shot down by Japanese fire; Bush bailed out over the ocean. He was rescued by a submarine a short time later and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism under fire. While still in the Navy, Bush married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945, in Rye, New York. He met her in 1941 during the Christmas holidays at a country club dance in Greenwich. They went o...

Prescott S. Bush, in full Prescott Sheldon Bush, (born May 15, 1895, Columbus, The Bush family tree The Bush family’s roots in the Mayflower (1620). Ancestors include Samuel Prescott, who joined The early life of Prescott S. Bush One of five children of Samuel and Flora Bush, Prescott attended Once overseas, Bush would take part in the Ohio State Journal, which unquestioningly reported the incident as factual, as did the New Haven Journal-Courier, ultimately forcing her to publish a retraction letter. The incident was a source of enduring embarrassment for Bush. Some observers pointed to it as a cause of the somber Business career, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and association with Nazi Germany After the war, Bush began working for a George Herbert Walker, had founded one of the Midwest’s first investment banks and became even wealthier heading up the BBH’s association with the German industrialist Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Political career and patriarch of presidents As his Bush’s first forays into statewide Connecticut politics included a stint as finance chairman of the state’s Republican committee during the late 1940s. In 1950 he ran in an