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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutPrescott Sheldon BUSH
(1895-1972)
Senate Years of Service:
1952-1963Party: RepublicanBUSH, Prescott Sheldon,
(father of George Herbert Walker Bush, grandfather of President
George W. Bush), a Senator from Connecticut; born in Columbus,
Franklin County, Ohio, May 15, 1895; 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.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Herskowitz, Mickey. Duty,
Honor, Country: The Story and Legacy of Prescott Bush.
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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