25 Facts About Prescott Bush

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Prescott Sheldon Bush was an American banker as a Wall Street executive investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the from 1952 of the Bush family, he was the father of President, and the paternal grandfather of President and Florida Governor.

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Prescott Bush served in several high-ranking United States Golf Association offices, including president of that organization.

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Prescott Bush won re-election in 1956 but declined to seek re-election in 1962, retiring from the Senate the following year.

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Samuel Prescott Bush was a railroad middle manager, then a steel company president and, during World War I, a federal government official in charge of coordination of and assistance to major weapons contractors.

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Three subsequent generations of the Prescott Bush family have been Yale alumni.

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Prescott Bush was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity and Skull and Bones secret society.

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Prescott Bush was a cheerleader, played varsity golf and baseball, sang in the Whiffenpoofs, and was president of the Yale Glee Club.

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The Bush family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1923, where Prescott briefly worked for the Hupp Products Company.

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Prescott Bush was an avid golfer, and in 1935 was named head of the USGA.

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Prescott 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 W Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power broker.

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In July 2007, Harper's Magazine published an article by Scott Horton, an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, claiming that Prescott Bush was involved in the 1934 Business Plot, a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler into helping them overthrow President Franklin D Roosevelt.

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Journalist Duncan Campbell pointed out documents showing that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen.

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Prescott Bush was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into World War II.

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Prescott Bush was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first nationwide campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947.

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Prescott Bush was an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund, serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.

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Prescott Bush was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, and during his tenure supported the Polaris submarine project, the establishment of the Peace Corps, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution.

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On December 2,1954, Prescott Bush was part of the large majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy after McCarthy had taken on the US Army and the Eisenhower administration.

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In terms of issues, Prescott Bush often agreed with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

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Prescott Bush favored a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket for 1960, and was presumed to support Rockefeller's 1964 presidential candidacy until the latter's remarriage in 1963.

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Prescott Bush drafted the Bush Hurricane Survey Act, enabling US Army engineers to develop a new program of community protection against tidal flooding.

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Prescott Bush married Dorothy Wear Walker on August 6,1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine.

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Dorothy Walker Prescott Bush was a founding member of the Junior League of Columbus, Ohio in 1923.

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Prescott Bush founded the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni group, in 1937.

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Prescott Bush maintained homes in New York City, Long Island, Greenwich, the Walker's Point Estate, and Fishers Island, a secluded island off the Connecticut coast.

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Prescott Bush died of cancer in 1972 at age 77 at Memorial Hospital in and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.