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==Personal life== [[File:Prescott Bush Grave.jpg|thumb|The grave of Prescott Bush]] [[File:Prescott Bush Headstone.jpg|thumb|130px|The headstone<br />of Prescott Bush]] Prescott Bush married Dorothy Wear Walker (1901β1992) on August 6, 1921, in [[Kennebunkport, Maine]]. Dorothy Walker Bush was a founding member of the Junior League of Columbus, Ohio in 1923. They had five children: {{nowrap|Prescott Jr.}} {{nowrap|(1922β2010),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504491.html|title=Prescott S. Bush Jr., brother and uncle of U.S. presidents, dies at 87|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=T. Rees|last=Shapiro|date=June 26, 2010|access-date=January 27, 2017}}</ref>}} [[George H. W. Bush|George]] {{nowrap|(1924β2018),}} [[Nancy Walker Bush Ellis|Nancy]] {{nowrap|(1926β2021),}} [[Jonathan Bush|Jonathan]] {{nowrap|(1931β2021),}} and [[William H. T. Bush|William "Bucky"]] {{nowrap|(1938β2018).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/texas/article/William-H-T-Bucky-Bush-was-brother-uncle-of-12719934.php |title=William H.T. "Bucky" Bush was brother, uncle of presidents |access-date=March 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301225822/https://www.timesunion.com/news/texas/article/William-H-T-Bucky-Bush-was-brother-uncle-of-12719934.php |archive-date=March 1, 2018 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>}} Bush founded the [[Yale Glee Club]] Associates, an alumni group, in 1937. As was his father-in-law, he was a member of the [[United States Golf Association]], serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928β1935. He was a multi-year club champion of the Round Hill Club in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], and was on the committee set up by New York City Mayor [[Robert F. Wagner Jr.]] to help create the [[New York Mets]]. He was a member of the [[American Legion]] and the [[Forty and Eight veterans organization|40 & 8 Society]]. Bush maintained homes in New York City, Long Island, Greenwich, the [[Walker's Point Estate]], and [[Fishers Island]], a secluded island off the Connecticut coast. He died of cancer in 1972 at age 77 at [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|Memorial Hospital]] in {{nowrap|[[New York City]],<ref name=apobitct/>}} and is interred at [[Putnam Cemetery]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]].
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