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- Notable position held: United States Senator from Connecticut
- Political party: Republican
- Spouse: Dorothy Walker Bush
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Prescott Bush is the grandfather of current U.S. President George W. Bush, and the father of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush. He was a businessman who served in the U.S. Senate from 1952 to 1963.
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Timeline
- May 15, 1895: Born in Columbus, Ohio
- 1913: Enrolls at Yale University
- 1917: Graduates from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree
- 1917-1919: Serves as field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- 1921: Marries Dorothy Walker
- 1924: Named vice president of A. Harriman & Co. by George Herbert Walker, his father-in-law
- 1947-1950: Served as Connecticut Republican finance chairman
- 1952: Elected to the United States Senate
- 1956: Re-elected to the Senate
- 1962: Retires
- October 8, 1972: Dies at age 77
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Nazi Connections
Recently declassified U.S. government documents have connected Prescott Bush to Fritz Thyssen, a German industrialist who helped fund Adolf Hitler's rise to power.The New Hampshire Gazette: Bush/Nazi Link Confirmed (October 10, 2003) Prescott Bush was a director of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), which was owned by a bank owned by Thyssen. UBC, along with other Thyssen holdings, was seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act for doing business with Nazi Germany.The New Hampshire Gazette: Bush/Nazi Link Continued (November 7, 2003)Prescott Bush has also been linked to the Business Plot, a political conspiracy involving several business leaders. The group was planning to overthrow U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt via a military coup, in an attempt to turn the country into a fascist dictatorship and adopt Nazi policies.BBC Radio: The Whitehouse Coup (July 23, 2007)
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Prescott Bush Questions
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Prescott Bush Books and Research
Prescott Bush Satire and Humor
- MediaBloodhound: The Wounded-Courier: Day After "Appeasement" Remark, Ghost of Prescott Bush Hovers Over WH (May 16, 2008)
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#reddit Allen worked with Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker who ran Union Banking Corporati.. http://bit.ly/6D9YCV #rulez
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@BetsyMTP Bush family? Prescott-George HW-George W.?
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Today's cartoon was my 2006 BUSH & BLAIR Xmas card design http://twitpic.com/qm9hc Tomorrow: BRAD PITT or JOHN PRESCOTT? YOU decide...
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Bush #1 Son of Prescott Bush....funder for the Nazi war machine. When Union Bank & Trust was seized Nazi $$ was in their vaults. Do the math
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Just saw the people decorating the Prescott Valley Christmas Bush!!
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