Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895 - 1972)

Born 15 May 1895 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy Wear (Walker) Bush — married 6 Aug 1921 in Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1972 at age 77 in New York City, New York, United States

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Preceded by William A. Purtell

Prescott Bush US Senator (Class 3) from Connecticut 1952—1963

Succeeded by Abraham A. Ribicoff

Biography

Sheldon P. Bush was born 15 May 1895 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States to Samuel and Flora (Sheldon) Bush.^[1][2][3][4]

He attended the Douglas School of Columbus, Ohio, and St. George's School, Newport, R.I., 1908-1913; graduated from Yale University in 1917; enlisted in Connecticut National Guard in 1916 and served as captain of Field Artillery in American Expeditionary Forces 1917-1919; engaged in hardware business as a warehouse clerk in St. Louis, Mo.; moved to Greenwich, Conn., in 1924; engaged in banking business in New York City 1926; moderator, Greenwich Representative Town Meeting 1935-1952; trustee, Yale University; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1950; elected on November 4, 1952, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James O'Brien McMahon; reelected in 1956 and served from November 4, 1952, to January 2, 1963; was not a candidate for reelection in 1962; resumed his career in the banking and investment field; died in New York City, October 8, 1972; interment in Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn.^[5]

Marriage and Children

Married: Dorothy Walker on 6 August 1921 in Kennebunkport, York County, Maine.^{[6][4] [2][7]}

Children of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker:

1. Prescott Sheldon Bush
2. George Herbert Walker Bush
3. Nancy Bush
4. Jonathan James Bush
5. William Trotter Bush

Timeline

• Graduation: Yale University - MA 1917, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ^[2][3]
• Military Service: Connecticut National Guard 1917-1919.^[3]
• Occupations

Occupation: Warehouse Clerk in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA^[3]

Occupation: Banking, 1926 in New York, New York, New York, USA^[3]

Occupation: Yale University Trustee in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.^[3]

Occupation: US Senator - Connecticut, from 1952 to 1963 in Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA ^[2][3]

Occupation: Business Executive ^[2]

Death

Died: 8 October 1972 in New York, New York, New York, USA.^{[4] [2][8][9]}

Cause: Lung Cancer

Burial: Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA^[3][10]

University of Connecticut Biographies

Prescott S. Bush was born on 15 Mary 1895 to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush and was raised in Columbus, Ohio. He received a B.A.from Yale University in 1917 and completed his Army career in 1919. Bush joined the firm of Brown Brothers and Company became a partner in 1930.In 1921 he married Dorothy Walker. The couple had five children, one of whom, George Herbert Walker Bush, would become the forty-first President of the United States.

A resident of Greenwich, CT, Bush was elected as a member of its representative town meeting. In 1933 he was elected as moderator, a post to which he was re-elected until his election to the United States Senate in 1952. In 1947, he served as Chairman of the Connecticut Republican State Finance Committee and as Delegate-at-Large to the 1948 Republican National Convention.

Two years after experiencing a close loss in Connecticut's 1950 senatorial election, Bush defeated Abraham Ribicoff in a run to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Brien McMahon. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1956. During his senatorial career, Bush served as a member of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, the Senate Committee on Public Works, the Committee on Armed Services, a congressional Joint Economic Committee, and the Special Committee on Aging.

Bush received national recognition as an advocate of fiscal responsibility in government, and sponsored a price stability amendment to the Employment Act of 1946. He also proposed to give the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills, and in bills authorizing federal departments and agencies to borrow from the Treasury. He took special interest in the national urban renewal program, and, following enactment of the Housing Act of 1954, convened a Connecticut Conference on Urban Renewal in Hartford. His work on this issue resulted in twenty-six Connecticut communities receiving over $150 million in federal grants, which gave Connecticut the highest per capita renewal program in the United States.

Another of Senator Bush's major legislative interests was flood and hurricane protection for New England communities. He drafted Public Law 71, the Bush Hurricane Survey Act, enabling Army engineers to develop a new program of community protection against hurricane tidal flooding. Along with Congressman John W. McCormack, the Democratic House Majority Leader, Bush cooperated to enact Public Law 685, the Bush-McCormack Act, which expedited the construction of local flood protection works. In addition, Bush played a leading role in the drafting of the Federal Highway Aid Act of 1956, which authorized the construction of the national system of interstate and defense highways.

While Senator, Bush remained active in the Republican party. In 1956, he served as Chairman for the Resolutions Committee of the Republican National Convention. Four years later, he chaired a subcommittee which drafted the widely acclaimed platform planks on economic growth, business and labor.

During his career, Prescott Bush served as director of several nationally known corporations, including the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Wanadium Corporation of America, and Prudential Insurance. For eight years, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as Secretary, Vice President andPresident from 1928-1935.

Bush announced his intention not to run for re-election in 1961. He died in 1972.

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6HX-FSQ : 8 March 2021), Sheldon P. Bush, 1894.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Marquis Who's Who on The Web: Prescott Bush
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Biographical Directory of United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/ Prescott Bush]
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; Date: 2009.p 449
5. ↑ American National Biography; Herskowitz, Mickey. Duty, Honor, Country: The Story and Legacy of Prescott Bush. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 2003. Biographical Directory of United States Congress.
6. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24F-MNYC : 2 March 2021), Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker, 06 Aug 1921; citing Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7B5-FK2 : 8 January 2021), Prescott S Bush, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-52, sheet 2A, line 24, family 27, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 495.
8. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTYK-PX3 : 7 January 2021), Prescott Bush, Oct 1972; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
9. ↑ "Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ5H-JS3 : 9 December 2014), Presc Bush, 08 Oct 1972; from "Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2003); citing 000, , New York, Connecticut Department of Health, Hartfort.
10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 April 2021), memorial page for Prescott Sheldon Bush (15 May 1895–8 Oct 1972), Find a Grave Memorial no. 5988, citing Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMKL-M3H : accessed 16 April 2021), Prescott S Bush in household of Simon P Bush, Milwaukee city Ward 16, Precinct 4, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 146, sheet 3B, family 57, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,805.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M884-1YP : 2 February 2021), Prescott S Bush, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMP3-KDY : accessed 16 April 2021), Prescott S Bush, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 134, sheet 4A, line 21, family 29, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 257; FHL microfilm 2,339,992.
• Wikipedia, "Samuel P. Bush",

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