Prescott Bush

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Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895–October 8, 1972) was an American banker and politician.

He represented Connecticut in the United States Senate from 1952 to 1963 after serving as a Wall Street executive investment banker.

Vice President George H. W. was the father of a Bush family.

Governor George W. Bush of Texas, and Florida Governor Jeb Bush's paternal grandfather, George W. Bush, and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Bush graduated from Yale College and served as an artillery officer in World War I. He worked with various companies after the war, becoming a minor partner of the A. Harriman & Co. investment bank in 1931.

He was involved in many high-ranking United States Golf Association offices, including president of the country Golf Association.

In 1925, Bush landed in Connecticut. In a 1952 special election, Bush gained the Senate, barely defeating Democratic nominee Abraham Ribicoff.

Bush steadfastly supported President Dwight D. Eisenhower and introduced legislation to establish the Interstate Highway System in the Senate.

In 1956, Bush won re-election in 1956, but in 1962, he declined to run for re-election, but the Senate was the next year.

Early life

Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush were born in Columbus, Ohio, to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush. Samuel Bush was a railroad middle manager, later a president of a steel company, and, during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors.

From 1908 to 1913, Bush attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. He enrolled at Yale College in 1913, where his paternal grandfather, Rev. William, was born. Both James Smith Bush (class of 1844) and his maternal uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr. (class of 1904) had matriculated. The Bush family has three generations of the Bush family, including three generations of Yale students. Prescott Bush was accepted into the Zeta Psi fraternity and Skull and Bones' obscure society. George H. W. Bush, as well as his son, George W. Bush, was also a member of the society, as has his nephew George W. Bush. George H. Bush and George Bush were, on the other hand, not supporters of Zeta Psi and instead members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Prescott Bush was one of a group of Bonesmen who dug up and removed Geronimo's skull from his grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1918, according to Skull and Bones. The Bonesmen arguably dug up someone at Fort Sill, but not Geronimo, according to historian David L. Miller.

Prescott Bush, a cheerleader, competed in golf and baseball, and was president of Yale Glee Club.

Bush served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917-1919) during World War I. He underwent intelligence training at Verdun, France, and was briefly assigned to a team of French officers. He was under fire in the Meuse-Argonne attack, alternating between intelligence and artillery.

Political life

Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942 and served as the treasurer of the first national Planned Parenthood party in 1947. He was also a pioneer of the United Negro College Fund, serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.

He served as Connecticut's budget chairman from 1947-1950 and was the Republican nominee for the Senate in 1950. Bush "is coming to be known as President Truman's Harry Hopkins," a Boston columnist said. Mr. Bush isn't a Chinaman's chance, and he certainly hasn't one. (Harry Hopkins had been one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's top strategists.) Bush's ties with Planned Parenthood also harmed him in staudy Catholic Connecticut, where the family vehemently denied the connection, but the senator lost by only 1,000 votes to Sen. William Burnett Benton.

Prescott Bush, 1952, wanted a match with Sen. Benton but was refused as the party reverted to William Purtell. Senator Brien McMahon died later this year, but Republicans nominated Bush this time. He defeated Democratic nominee Abraham Ribicoff and was elected to the Senate after defeating him in the Democratic primary. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's faithful supporter continued to support him until January 1963. In 1956, he was re-elected with 55% of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Doddd (later U.S.). Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a senator from Connecticut and his father, have opted not to run for another term in 1962. During his tenure as a supporter of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, he promoted the Polaris submarine project (built by Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, Connecticut), the establishment of the Peace Corps, and the acceptance of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

After McCarthy had taken on the United States Army and the Eisenhower administration, Prescott Bush was one of the majority (67–22) majority to censure Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy on December 2, 1954. During the debate leading to the censure, Bush said that McCarthy has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people" due to his appearance and his message, which he has praised among his followers: that there can be no genuine differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to say any doubts or disagreements about any of his conduct, or, in his view, you must be a Communist, a Marxist sympathizer, or a fool who has been deceived by the Communist line." Prescott Bush was later included on an undated handwritten list of potential candidates for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination by Eisenhower.

Bush often agreed with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller on topics. According to Theodore H. White's book about the 1964 presidential election, Bush and Rockefeller were longtime acquaintances. For 1960, Bush favoured a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket, and was expected to endorse Rockefeller's 1964 presidential bid until the latter's remarriage in 1963. Rockefeller was later accused of divorcing his first wife and marrying a woman with whom Rockefeller had an affair while married to his first wife. Former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge Jr. was later praised by Bush's older brother, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was also the older brother of one of Bush's protégés.

Flooding and hurricane security were two of Senator Bush's top legislative priorities. He drafted the Bush Hurricane Survey Act (Public Law 71), which allowed US Army engineers to develop a new strategy of community defense against tidal flooding. The Bush-McCormack Act, co-sponsored by Bush and Representative John W. McCormack, the Democratic House Majority Leader, who expedited the establishment of local flood protection services.

Personal life

Prescott Bush married Dorothy Wear Walker (1901–1992) in Kennebunkport, Maine, on August 6, 1921. They had five children: Prescott Jr. (1922–2010), George (1924–2021), Nancy (1931–2021), and William "Bucky" (1938–2018).

In 1937, Bush established the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni association. He was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving as secretary, vice president, and president from 1928-1935, as was his father-in-law. He was a multi-year champion of the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was on the committee set up by New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. to help with the New York Mets' creation.

He was a member of the American Legion and the 40 & 8 Society.

Bush owned homes in New York City, Long Island, and Greenwich, Connecticut; the family's home in Kennebunkport, Maine; and Fishers Island, a secluded island off the coast of Connecticut.

He died of cancer at the age of 77 at Memorial Hospital in New York City in 1972 and was laid to rest at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Business career

Prescott Bush began working with the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis, Missouri, after being discharged in 1919.

In 1923, the Bush family migrated to Columbus, Ohio, where Prescott briefly worked for the Hupp Products Company. He became president of Stedman Products in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in November 1923. He lived in a Victorian house on 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts, where his son, George H. W. Bush, was born.

Bush became vice president of A. Harriman & Co., where his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, was president in 1924. E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley, two Yale classmates, and fellow Bonesmen, all worked with the company.

He joined the United States Rubber Company of New York City as the head of the foreign division in 1925 and migrated to Greenwich, Connecticut.

He became a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., a Philadelphia merchant bank established in 1931, and Harriman Brothers & Co. (a merchant bank established in 1927 in New York City).

He was a keen golfer and was appointed president of the United States Golf Association in 1935.

Prescott Bush, the Yale Corporation's main governing body of Yale University, served from 1944 to 1956. He was appointed to chairman William S. Paley by his close friend and colleague, W. Avell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power broker, in 1932.

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