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Prescott Bush
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Prescott Bush
Portrait of Prescott Bush

United States Senator for Connecticut
January 20, 1945 - January 20, 1953

Predecessor Joseph P. Kennedy
Successor Thomas Sullivan
Born May 15, 1895

Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 - October 8, 1972) was an American nationalist politician who served as the thirtieth president of the United States. Bush's son, George, would successfully reach the position of vice president in 1988. Bush is considered the patriarch of the Bush family.

Early Life and Education[]

Bush was born to Samuel P. Bush and Flora Bush in Columbus, Ohio in 1895. His father was a prominent Ohio businessman in the steel industry with strong connections to the Rockefellers, and was regarded as one of their most prominent allies and was a noted Bourbon Democrat. However, following the shift of the Democratic Party towards the political left in the early 1900's and the election of populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and 1904, the Bush family followed many wealthy businessmen from the dominant Democratic Party over to the Nationalists.

Bush was raised in a wealthy household as a result, and his father was a railroad executive, steel magnate and a manufacturer and distributor of munitions to the United States Army from the family factory in Coakley, Ohio. Bush enrolled at Yale in 1913 and was a member of the Delta Rho fraternity, and played baseball, football and golf, and was the president of the Yale Glee Club and served as Secretary of the Yale Student Government. After graduation in 1917, Bush enlisted in the United States Army and served for two years as a field artillery officer at Fort Cannell in Oregon, and saw no combat in this time.

Business Career[]

SEC Chairman and Senatorial Career[]

Electoral History of Prescott Bush[]

Presidency[]

Post-Presidency and Death[]

Legacy and Memorials[]

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