See also
1 Marvin Pierce BUSH1 ( - ) [4385].
2 George Herbert Walker BUSH2,3,4,5 (1924- ) [4370]. Born 12 Jun 1924, Milton, MA.1,6 Marr Barbara PIERCE 6 Jan 1945, Rye, NY.1
From www.infoplease.com.
George Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to Connecticut. The youth studied at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.
The future president joined the Navy after war broke out and at 18 became the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot, serving from 1942 to 1945, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He fought the Japanese on 58 missions and was shot down once.
After the war, Bush earned an economics degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key in two and a half years at Yale University.
In 1945 Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, N.Y., daughter of a magazine publisher. With his bride, Bush moved to Texas instead of entering his father's investment banking business. There he founded his oil company and by 1980 reported an estimated wealth of $1.4 million.
Throughout his whole career, Bush had the backing of an established family, headed by his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952. The family helped the young patrician become established in his early business ventures, a rich uncle raising most of the capital required for founding the oil company.
In the 1960s, Bush won two contests for a Texas Republican seat in the House of Representatives, but lost two bids for a Senate seat. After Bush's second race for the Senate, President Nixon appointed him U.S. delegate to the United Nations and he later became Republican National Committee chairman. He headed the U.S. liaison office in Beijing before becoming Director of Central Intelligence. In 1980 Bush became Reagan's running mate despite earlier criticism of Reagan “voodoo economics” and by the 1984 election had won acclaim for his devotion to Reagan's conservative agenda.
The vice president entered the 1988 presidential campaign and easily defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis. Bush's choice of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana as a running mate provoked criticism and ridicule that continued even after the administration was in office. Nonetheless Bush strongly defended his choice. George Herbert Walker Bush became president on Jan. 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years.
Bush's early Cabinet choices reflected a pragmatic desire for an efficient, nonideological government. And with his usual cautious instinct, in 1990 he nominated to the Supreme Court the scholarly David H. Souter, with broadly conservative views.
In his first year, Bush was confronted with the Lebanese hostage crisis, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, and the ongoing war against drug trafficking. His public approval soared following the invasion of Panama in late 1989. But a staggering budget deficit and the savings and loan crisis caused the president's popularity to dip sharply in his second year. This plunge followed Bush's recantation of his campaign “no new taxes” pledge as he sat down with congressional leaders to tame the budget deficit and deal with a faltering economy.
In 1991, the president emerged as the leader of an international coalition of Western democracies, Japan, and even some Arab states that came together to free Kuwait following an invasion of the country by Iraq in Aug. 1990. The coalition forces defeated Iraq in only a little more than a month after Operation Desert Storm was launched on Jan. 16–17, 1991, and a nation grateful at feeling the end of the “Vietnam syndrome” gave the president an 89% approval rating. However, the high rating fell as the year went on, as doubts persisted about the war's outcome—Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remained in power and persistently avoided complying with the terms of the peace treaty—and as concerns began to grow about the faltering U.S. economy and other domestic problems.
A major Bush accomplishment in 1991 was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in July with Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their fourth summit conference, marking the end of the long weapons buildup.
In the 1992 presidential election, Bush was defeated by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas.
The Bushes have four sons, George, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a daughter, Dorothy. Another daughter, Robin, died at age three from leukemia. Son George served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, when he was elected the 43rd U.S. president. Jeb Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998.
4 Prescott Sheldon BUSH2,3,4,7 (1895-1972) [4368]. Born 15 May 1895, Columbus, OH.2,4 Marr Dorothy WALKER 6 Aug 1921, Kennebunkport, ME.7 Died 8 Oct 1972, New York City, NY.2,4
From the Lima News (Lima, OH).
October 9, 1972 - "Father of U.N. Ambassador Dies. By ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRESCOTT Sheldon Bush, former U.S. senator from Connecticut and the father of George Bush, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is dead at 77.
Bush died Sunday at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York. He lived in Greenwich, Conn.
A staunch Republican, Bush served in the Senate from 1952 to 1963 and gained a reputation as an authority on government finance and the national economy. He was a confidant of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
As a member of the Senate's Public Works Committee, he helped draft the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 which authorized the construction of the national interstate highway system.
In Washington, President Nixon issued a statement saying that in Bush's death "the nation lost a citizen of exceptional honor and integrity.
Before and after his years in the Senate, Bush was a full partner in the Wall Street Investment firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Yale in 1917. He married the former Dorothy Walker in 1921.".
8 Samuel Prescott BUSH2,8,9,10 (1864-1948) [4366]. Born 13 Oct 1864, NJ.2,8,9,10 Died 8 Feb 1948, Columbus, OH.2,10
From the New York Times, February 9, 1948.
SAMUEL P. BUSH, 83, A STEEL EXECUTIVE - Ex-Head of Buckeye Casting Co. Succumbs in Ohio - Once on War Industries Board.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb 8 (AP) - Samuel Prescott Bush, retired industrialist and chairman of the first war chest drive in 1914, died today in the University Hospital at the age of 83. For many years he was a member of the National Association of Manufacturers' executive committee, and he was first president of the Ohio Tax League.
Mr. Bush was president for twenty-two years, until his retirement in 1928, of the Buckeye Steel Casting Company of Columbus. Previously, for eighteen years, he had been with the Pennsylvania Railroad as a superintendent of motive power. He retired a year ago as a director of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.
In 1931 Mr. Bush was a member of the commission appointed by President Hoover to deal with problems of business and unemployment relief.
In the first World War, he was on the War Industries Board, of which Bernard M. Baruch was chairman, and he was closely associated with Mr. Baruch in later years.
Born on Staten Island, on Oct. 13, 1864, Mr. Bush was the son of the late Rev. James Smith Bush, a Protestant Episcopal minister, and the late Harriet Fay Bush of Boston. He was graduated in 1884 from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, from which he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1947.
Mr. Bush had been an Elk and a member of the University and Engineers Clubs of New York. At one time he was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
After the death in 1920 of his first wife, the former Flora Sheldon of Columbus, he married Martha Bell Carter of Milwaukee.
Besides his widow, he leaves two sons, James S. of St. Louis, and Prescott S. Bush of New York and Greenwich, Conn., who is with Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., and two daughters, Mrs. Frank E. House Jr., and Mrs. Stewart H. Clement of New Haven, Conn.
Note: Both the 1920 and 1930 OH census state that Samuel was born in New Jersey, not Staten Island as reported in the obituary.
9 Flora SHELDON2,9 (1872-1920) [4367]. Born 1872, OH.2,9 Died 4 Sep 1920, Westerly, RI.2,11,12 Cause: Automobile accident.
From the Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY)
September 15, 1920 - "WESTERLY, R.I., Sept 14 -- The death of Mrs Samuel Prescott Bush, of Columbus, O., a wealthy summer resident killed by and automobile at Watch Hill September 4, was due to criminal negligence, Coroner Everett A. Kingsley reported today. Herbert Davis of Mystc, Conn., a broker, is held in bonds of $3,000 on charges of manslaughter in connection with the death. Mrs. Bush's husband is president of the Buckeye Steel Company.".
5 Dorothy WALKER2,3,7 (1901-1992) [4369]. Born 1 Jul 1901, Kennebunkport ME.2,3,13 Died 19 Nov 1992, Greenwich, CT.13
From the New York Times.
August 7, 1921 - "Bush - Walker. Special to the New York Times.
KENNEBUNKPORT, Me., Aug. 6. - The wedding of Miss Dorothy Walker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Herbert Walker of New York, formerly of St. Louis, and Prescott S. Bush, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, was celebrated here today by Bishop Tyler of North Dakota. The brides attendants were the Misses Isabel Rockefeller, Hope Lincoln and Mary Keck of New York, Elizabeth Trotter of Philadelphia, Martha Pittman and Ruth Lionberger of St. Louis. Her sister, Miss Nancy Walker, was her maid of honor.
James S. Bush was his brother's best man and the ushers were Knight Wooley and Frank Shepard of New York, John Shepley of St. Louis, Richard Bentley and Henry Isham of Chicago, William Potter Wear of Philadelphia, Henry Fennimore Cooper of St. Louis and G. H. Walker Jr. of New York.
A large reception was held at Surf Lodge, the Summer home of the bride's parents."
November 20, 1992 - "Dorothy W. Bush, Mother of President, Dies at 91.
Dorothy Walker Bush, the mother of President Bush, died shortly after 5 P.M. yesterday at the family's house in Greenwich, Conn., after suffering a stroke. She was 91 years old.
Mrs Bush died barely five hours after president Bush returned to Washington from Greenwich, where he had flown early today with his daughter, Dorothy Koch, to be at his mother's bedside.
The President had slipped quietly from Washington at 8:35 A.M. today for the trip to Greenwich, traveling on a small Air Force C-20 jet and in an eight-car motorcade instead of in a Boeing 747 and with the retinue of aides and Secret Service agents that normally accompany him on every trip out of town. He returned to the White House at 12:55 P.M. and made no public appearances for the rest of the day.
Barbara Bush did not accompany her husband to Connecticut but stayed in Washington to greet President-elect Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary, and to attend to ceremonial duties.
The White House said that Mr. Bush was told by telephone of his mother's death by his sister, Nancy Ellis of Lincoln, Mass., immediately after it occurred. Both he and Barbara Bush will attend funeral services Monday morning in Greenwich, aides said.
A few hours after Mrs. Bush died, Mr. Clinton called the President to offer his condolences, Mr. Clinton's office said "She was a remarkable woman, whom Hillary, Chelsea and I had the good fortune to meet in Maine several years ago," Mr. Clinton said, adding that the Bush family is "in our thoughts and prayers."
Mr. Bush has described his mother as instilling in him a sense of competitiveness and of loyalty. Most of all, he said, she taught him not to take himself too seriously. She was a disciplinarian who took pains to see that her children were not spoiled, despite the family's good fortune. Family values, he said, included a sense of social service and an abhorrence of self-aggrandizement.
Mrs. Bush also reared her children in a strongly religious home, a reflection of the own childhood during which she is said to have attended church as many a three times every Sunday.
While George Bush was Vice President, Barbara Bush said in an interview that her mother-in-law "had 10 times more" influence on her son than his father did.
When Mr. Bush took a vacation in Florida after his election to the Presidency in 1988, he put his arm around his mother and told reporters, "I just came to get my instructions from the head of the family here on how to do my job." Atmosphere of Privilege.
She was born Dorothy Walker in Kennebunkport, Me., on July 1, 1901, the daughter of Loulie Wear Walker and George Herbert Walker. The Walker family had emigrated from England to America in the 17th century, and settled in Maine. By the middle of the 19th century, they had migrated to St. Louis where Dorothy Walker's father became a thriving businessman.
Her father was a banker who established the Walker Cup, which pits British and American amateur golfers. Her father and grandfather established a summer home for the family about 1905 on Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, in a rambling waterfront house that now serves as the vacation White House.
Mrs. Bush grew up in an atmosphere of privilege in St. Louis. She also attended the Farmington School Academy, a prep school in Farmington, Conn. Described in her youth as beautiful and vivacious, with an infectious laugh, she was an avid tennis player, an excellent golfer and a strong swimmer.
In 1921, Dorothy Walker married Prescott Bush, an investment banker, at the Church of St. Ann in Kennebunkport, not far from her family's summer house. The couple moved to Tennessee and then Massachusetts where George Bush, the future President, was born in 1924. She named her second son after her father, and when young George married Barbara Pierce in 1945, the bride wore her mother-in-laws wedding veil of princess and rosepoint lace.
During the President's childhood, Mrs. Bush was active in Greenwich public affairs, doing work for the Red Cross and a local welfare agency. Her husband, a partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman & Company, also served as Republican Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963. He died in 1972.
In addition to the house in Kennebunkport, she kept homes in Greenwich, where the President spent his boyhood, and on Jupiter Island in Florida for winter vacations.
In addition to the President and her daughter, she is survived by three sons, Prescott Bush Jr. of Greenwich, Jonathan Bush of Manhattan and William Bush of St. Louis, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Correction: November 21, 1992, Saturday.
An obituary yesterday about Dorothy W. Bush, the mother of the President, misstated the day the President traveled from Washington to Greenwich, Conn to visit her and day he returned to Washington. It was Thursday.".
10 George Herbert WALKER7,13 ( - ) [10140].
11 Loulie WEAR13 ( - ) [10146].
3 Barbara PIERCE1,5 (1925- ) [4382]. Born 8 Jun 1925, Rye, NY.1
From the New York Times.
December 12, 1943 - "BARBARA PIERCE ENGAGED TO WED.
Student at Smith College Will Be Bride of Ensign George Bush of Naval Air Arm.
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
RYE, N.Y., Dec. 11 - Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Pierce have announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to Ensign George Herbert Walker Bush, Naval Air Arm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Prescott S. Bush of Greenwich Conn.
Miss Pierce was graduated from Ashley Hall, Charleston, S.C., and is a student at Smith College. She is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Pierce of Dayton and of Mrs. James E. Robinson of Columbus, Ohio, and the late Judge Robinson. Her father is executive vice president of the McCall Corporation, magazine publishers.
Ensign Bush, an alumnus of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., received his wings in June at Corpus Christie, Tex. His father, a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., is chairman of the National War Fund Drive. The prospective bridegroom is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. George Herbert Walker of New York and Samuel Prescott Bush of Columbus.".
6 Marvin PIERCE5 ( - ) [10147].
12 Scott PIERCE5 ( - ) [10148].
| 1 | "Information from presidential genealogy websites". |
| 2 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 3 | "1930 CT, Fairfield, Greenwich census". |
| 4 | "Obituary of Prescott Sheldon Bush in the New York Times, October 9, 1972". |
| 5 | "Engagement announcement of Barbara Pierce to George Herbert Walker Bush in the New York Times, December 12, 1943". |
| 6 | "www.infoplease.com". |
| 7 | "Wedding announcement of Dorothy Walker and Prescott S. Bush in the New York Timnes, August 7, 1921". |
| 8 | "1930 OH, Franklin, Columbus census". |
| 9 | "1920 OH, Franklin, Franklin census". |
| 10 | "Obituary of Samuel Prescott Bush in the New York Times, February 9, 1948". |
| 11 | "Death notice of Mrs. Flora Sheldon Bush in the Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID), September 15, 1920". |
| 12 | "Death notice of Flora Sheldon Bush in the Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), September 15, 1920". |
| 13 | "Obituary of Dorothy Walker Bush in the New York Times, November 20, 1992". |