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Palm Beach Post
April 16, 2018
Her son, former Gov. Jeb Bush, and mother-in-law, Dorothy Walker Bush, frequently received her as a guest in their homes in South Florida and on Jupiter Island. Former President George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, bought a home on Jupiter Island in the 1960s. It's a place where the family vacationed forÃâà...
ThisWeek Community News
April 16, 2018
“Reading is the key to all learning, and there is no better place to learn to read.” She and former President George H.W. Bush have family ties to Columbus. Her grandfather, James E. Robinson, served as an Ohio Supreme Court justice. Her husband's grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush, was president ofÃâà...
TownandCountrymag.com
April 16, 2018
"George Bush's father, Prescott Bush Sr., was a successful Wall Street investment banker and later a senator from Connecticut who left an estate of nearly $3.5 million when he died in 1972," the New York Times reports. "Barbara Bush also comes from a family of means. But, according to President Bush'sÃâà...
History News Network (HNN)
March 18, 2018
Connecticut Banker and Senator, Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of the Bush presidents. Charles Lindbergh. Even the first, albeit short-lived, America First Committee (1940-1941) with its origins at Yale University allowed itself to become infiltrated by dangerous agents of the Third Reich in America.
Hartford Courant
March 16, 2018
Last summer, Boughton underwent brain surgery to remove a noncancerous tumor from behind his ear. He returned to the political scene a month later with an appearance at the state GOP's annual Prescott Bush Awards fundraising dinner. Just moments before his collapse Thursday night, Boughton talkedÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 8, 2018
But the Bush family dynasty dates back to the 1950s, with the late Sen. Prescott Bush, R-Conn., George P.'s great-grandfather. Bushes have been on six of the last ten Republican presidential tickets, five of them successful. For the time being, the GOP is Trump's party. Not even an ambitious Bush can denyÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 7, 2018
But the Bush family dynasty dates back to the 1950s, with the late Sen. Prescott Bush, R-Conn., George P.'s great-grandfather. Bushes have been on six of the last ten Republican presidential tickets, five of them successful. For the time being, the GOP is Trump's party. Not even an ambitious Bush can denyÃâà...
CBS News
March 7, 2018
Prescott Bush, who was first elected in 1952. His son, George H.W. Bush, was elected president in 1988. His grandson, George W. Bush, was elected president in 2000. And Jeb Bush, of course, became Governor of Florida before running for president in 2016. Six of the last ten presidential elections, in factÃâà...
CT Post
March 7, 2018
David Stemerman attends the 39th annual Prescott Bush Awards Dinner of the Connecticut Republicans at the Hilton Hotel in Stamford, Conn., Tuesday night, Sept. 19, 2017. Photo: Bob Luckey Jr. / Hearst Connecticut Media. Buy this photo. Image 2 of 3. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin listens to Gov. DannelÃâà...
NPR
March 3, 2018
That's when Prescott Bush became a U.S. senator from Connecticut. Then his son George H. W. Bush became president. Jeb Bush would become governor of Florida. After six years as Texas governor, George W. Bush won the presidency, as well. Since he left office nearly a decade ago, there's been a lag.
Legacy.com (blog)
March 3, 2018
Prescott Sheldon Bush of Connecticut was also active in Republican politics. He chaired his nephew's presidential re-election campaign in Missouri. At the time, he recounted that he used to babysit the future 43rd President of the United States. Bush also was co-founder and chairman of Bush O'DonnellÃâà...
KERA News
March 3, 2018
That's when Prescott Bush became a U.S. senator from Connecticut. Then his son George H. W. Bush became president. Jeb Bush would become governor of Florida. After six years as Texas governor, George W. Bush won the presidency, as well. Since he left office nearly a decade ago, there's been a lag.
MyStatesman.com
February 17, 2018
Navy spokeswoman Katie Suich gave us a document confirming that George Prescott Bush was commissioned as a Navy Reserve officer on May 21, 2007, and left the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant on May 9, 2017. Bush campaign spokesman Lee Spieckerman passed along documents and photosÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
February 17, 2018
Navy spokeswoman Katie Suich gave us a document confirming that George Prescott Bush was commissioned as a Navy Reserve officer on May 21, 2007, and left the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant on May 9, 2017. Bush campaign spokesman Lee Spieckerman passed along documents and photosÃâà...
PolitiFact
February 16, 2018
We decided to check the facts. For starters, Bush was a Navy Reserve officer. By email, Navy spokeswoman Katie Suich gave us a document confirming that George Prescott Bush was commissioned as a Navy Reserve officer on May 21, 2007, and left the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant on May 9, 2017.
Greenwich Time
February 8, 2018
Planned Parenthood has ties to Greenwich through Prescott Bush, a former resident of the town and a longtime U.S. senator from the Nutmeg State. Bush was the agency's first treasurer. His name even accompanied Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's atop the organization's letterhead in aÃâà...
WBAP News/Talk
November 1, 2017
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – An activist who has criticized Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush's oversight of a $450 million renovation of the Alamo has announced a longshot bid to take Bush's job. Rick Range is a retired teacher and firefighter and an amateur historian. He worries that the multi-yearÃâà...
CT Post
August 17, 2017
The 36th annual Prescott Bush Awards Dinner at the Stamford Hilton, Stamford, Conn., Thursday night, April 10, 2014. The Connecticut Republican Party bestowed two-time U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon with ... more. Photo: Bob Luckey / Bob Luckey. Buy this photo. Image 2 of 4. ConnecticutÃâà...
CT Post
May 24, 2017
But the Connecticut GOP's marquee fundraising banquet — named for the late Bush family patriarch, Prescott Bush, and traditionally held in May in Stamford — is still without a headliner. It's put the event and its $250,000 fundraising haul on hold. Publicly, party leaders have cited scheduling conflictsÃâà...
Business Insider
March 24, 2015
His passion for politics, of course, trickled down to future generations of Bushes. Weisberg writes that, while George H.W. Bush never worked on any of his father's campaigns, he watched closely. He inherited his father's sense of duty. "Prescott Bush established three essential myths that Bush men lived byÃâà...
New York Times
June 24, 2010
Prescott Bush Jr. dropped out of college in 1943 to move to South America, where he worked for Pan American Airways, before returning to work on Wall Street. Mr. Bush joined an insurance brokerage firm, Johnson & Higgins, in 1952, and later became a partner, making the daily commute to New YorkÃâà...
New York Times
June 24, 2010
Prescott S. Bush Jr., the brother of one president and uncle of another, and a retired insurance executive who tried but never made it far in the family business — politics — died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 87. Mr. Bush's death was confirmed by Tracey Bergonzi, a spokeswoman at KeohaneÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 31, 1999
... kept workers satisfied and avoided labor strikes. The company operated a forge shop to serve needs during World War I and produced armor castings for WWII. During its heyday, it was run for 20 years by Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George H.W. Bush and great-grandfather of GeorgeÃâà...
KUOW News and Information
December 31, 1999
That's when Prescott Bush became a U.S. senator from Connecticut. Then his son George H. W. Bush became president. Jeb Bush would become governor of Florida. After six years as Texas governor, George W. Bush won the presidency, as well. Since he left office nearly a decade ago, there's been a lag.
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