Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Prescott Sheldon Jr. BUSH
Fri, Jun. 25, 2010
Prescott S. Bush Jr. | Ex-president's brother, 87
Prescott S. Bush Jr., 87, brother to one U.S. president and uncle to another, died Wednesday after a long illness in Hingham, Mass.
A retired insurance executive, Mr. Bush was the brother of former President George H.W. Bush and the uncle of former President George W. Bush.
Born in Portland, Maine, Mr. Bush grew up in Greenwich, Conn., later returning to live in Greenwich. He attended Phillips Academy Andover and Yale University. He was active in Connecticut politics as an adviser, campaign manager, and fund-raiser to Republican candidates, and in 1982 was briefly a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat his father, Prescott Bush, held for two terms.
After graduating from Yale in 1944, he lived in Brazil, where he helped Pan American Airways build and operate airfields. He returned to the United States in 1949 to take a job with Pan Am in New York City and later went to work for the Wall Street insurance brokerage firm Johnson & Higgins, where he became a partner. After retirement, he founded the United States-China Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit organization that encourages U.S.-China trade and investment. Mr. Bush leaves his wife of 66 years, Elizabeth; his son, James Bush, and daughter, Kelsey Bush-Nadeau, and six grandchildren.
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