Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr.

Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker and politician.[1] After working as a Wall Street executive investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the United States Senate from 1952 to 1963. He was the father of 41st United States President George H.W. Bush, and the paternal grandfather of former Texas Governor and President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.[2].

He died of cancer in 1972 at age 77 at Memorial Hospital in New York City,[1] and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Family

He was the son of Samuel P. Bush and Flora Sheldon.

Prescott Bush married Dorothy Wear Walker (1901–1992) on August 6, 1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine.

They had five children:

1. Prescott Jr. (1922–2010),
2. [22] George (1924–2018),
3. Nancy (1926–2021),
4. Jonathan (1931–2021), and
5. William "Bucky" (1938–2018).[23]

Notes

• Bush attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, from 1908–1913. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale College, where his paternal grandfather, Rev. James Smith Bush (class of 1844), and his maternal uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr. (class of 1904) had matriculated. Three subsequent generations of the Bush family have been Yale alumni. *Prescott Bush was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity and Skull and Bones secret society. George H. W. Bush was also a member of the society, as is his son, George W. Bush.
• George H. W. Bush and George Bush were, however, not members of Zeta Psi, and were members, instead, of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
• After graduation, Bush served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917–1919) during World War I. He received intelligence training at Verdun, France, and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers. Alternating between intelligence and artillery, he came under fire in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
• Bush founded the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni group, in 1937. As was his father-in-law, he was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928–1935.
• From 1944–1956, Prescott Bush was a member of the Yale Corporation, the principal governing body of Yale University.
• He was on the board of directors of CBS, having been introduced to chairman William S. Paley around 1932 by his close friend and colleague W. Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power broker.
• He was a multi-year club champion of the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• He was on the committee set up by New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. to help create the New York Mets.
• He was a member of the American Legion and the 40 & 8 Society.
• Bush maintained homes in New York City; Long Island; and Greenwich, Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; and a secluded island off the Connecticut coast, Fishers Island

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