Editing Prescott Bush

{{Short description|American politician (1895–1972)}}
{{redirect|Senator Bush}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Prescott Bush
| image               = Prescott Sheldon Bush.jpg
| caption             = Bush in 1948
| jr/sr               = United States Senator
| state               = [[Connecticut]]
| term_start          = November 4, 1952
| term_end            = January 3, 1963
| predecessor         = [[William A. Purtell]]
| successor           = [[Abraham Ribicoff]]
| birth_name          = Prescott Sheldon Bush
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1895|5|15}}
| birth_place         = [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1972|10|8|1895|5|15}}
| death_place         = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Dorothy Wear Walker Bush|Dorothy Walker]]|August 6, 1921}}
| children            = {{hlist|Prescott Jr.|[[George H. W. Bush|George]]|[[Nancy Walker Bush Ellis|Nancy]]|[[Jonathan Bush|Jonathan]]|[[William H. T. Bush|William]]}}
| parents             = [[Samuel P. Bush]]<br />Flora Sheldon
| relatives           = [[Bush family]]
| education           = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| signature           = Prescott Bush Signature.svg
| allegiance          = {{flag|United States|1912}}
| branch              = [[United States Army]]
| serviceyears        = 1917–1919
| rank                = {{dodseal|USAO3-2015|25}} [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]]
| unit                = [[American Expeditionary Forces|158th Field Artillery Brigade]]
| battles             = [[World War I]]
| module              = {{Listen
| embed        = yes
| filename     = Prescott bush voice.flac
| title        = Bush's voice
| type         = speech
| description  =  Bush interviewed on [[Longines Chronoscope]] on September 9, 1953
}}
}}
'''Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr.''' (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] politician.<ref name=apobitct>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-CAiAAAAIBAJ&pg=715%2C1269974 |work=The Day |location=(New London, Connecticut) |agency=Associated Press |title=Prescott Bush dies; former U.S. Senator |date=October 9, 1972 |page=27}}</ref> {{nowrap|After working}} as a [[Wall Street]] executive investment banker, he represented [[Connecticut]] in the {{nowrap|[[United States Senate]]}} from 1952 {{nowrap|to 1963.}} {{nowrap|A member}} of the [[Bush family]], he was the father of President {{nowrap|[[George H. W. Bush]]}}, and the paternal grandfather of President {{nowrap|[[George W. Bush]]}} and [[List of governors of Florida|Florida governor]] {{nowrap|  [[Jeb Bush]].}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ugg3BAAAQBAJ&q=prescott+bush+worked+as+a+Wall+Street+executive+investment+banker&pg=PA5|title=George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009 The American Presidents|publisher=Times Books|year=2015|isbn=9781627792301|page=5}}</ref>

Born in [[Columbus, Ohio]], Bush graduated from [[Yale College]] and served as an artillery officer during [[World War I]]. After the war, he worked for several companies, becoming a minor partner of the [[Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.]] investment bank in 1931. He served in several high-ranking [[United States Golf Association]] offices, including president of that organization. Bush settled in Connecticut in 1925.

Bush won election to the Senate in a [[1952 United States Senate special election in Connecticut|1952 special election]], narrowly defeating Democratic nominee [[Abraham Ribicoff]]. In the Senate, Bush staunchly supported President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and helped enact legislation to create the [[Interstate Highway System]]. Bush won [[1956 United States Senate election in Connecticut|re-election in 1956]] but declined to seek [[1962 United States Senate election in Connecticut|re-election in 1962]], retiring from the Senate the following year.

==Early life==
Prescott Bush was born in [[Columbus, Ohio]], on May 15, 1895 to [[Samuel P. Bush|Samuel Prescott Bush]] and Flora Sheldon Bush.<ref>Chapman, Roger. ''Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints and Voices'' Volume 1 M.E. Sharpe Inc. Armonk, New York, 2010, page 61</ref> Samuel Bush was a railroad middle manager, then a steel company president and, during [[World War I]], a federal government official in charge of coordination of and assistance to major [[defense contractor|weapons contractors]].

Bush attended [[St. George's School (Rhode Island)|St. George's School]] in [[Middletown, Rhode Island|Middletown]], [[Rhode Island]], from 1908 to 1913. In 1913, he enrolled at [[Yale College]], where his paternal grandfather, Rev. [[James Smith Bush]] (class of 1844), and his maternal uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr. (class of 1904) had matriculated. Three subsequent generations of the Bush family have been Yale alumni.

Prescott Bush was admitted to the [[Zeta Psi]] fraternity and [[Skull and Bones]] secret society. [[George H. W. Bush]] was also a member of the society, as is his son, [[George W. Bush]].  George H. W. Bush and George Bush were, however, not members of Zeta Psi, and were members, instead, of the [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity. According to Skull and Bones lore, Prescott Bush was among a group of Bonesmen who dug up and removed the skull of [[Geronimo]] from his grave at [[Fort Sill, Oklahoma|Fort Sill]], [[Oklahoma]], in 1918.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna29265600 |title=Geronimo's kin sue Skull and Bones |date=February 18, 2009 |access-date=January 10, 2013 |publisher=[[NBC News]]}}</ref> According to historian David L. Miller, the Bonesmen probably dug up somebody at Fort Sill, but not Geronimo.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook.html |title=Whose Skull and Bones? |first1=Kathrin Day |last1=Lassila |first2=Mark Alden |last2=Branch |date=May–June 2006 |access-date=January 10, 2013 |work=Yale Alumni Magazine}}</ref>

Prescott Bush was a cheerleader,<ref>[http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2008/01/28/cheerleading-of-the-20s-epitome-of-masculinity/ Cheerleading of the '20s: Epitome of masculinity] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021014435/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2008/01/28/cheerleading-of-the-20s-epitome-of-masculinity/ |date=October 21, 2016}}. ''Yale Daily News'' (January 28, 2008). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> played varsity golf and baseball, sang in the [[Whiffenpoofs]], and was president of the [[Yale Glee Club]].

After graduation, Bush served as a field artillery captain with the [[American Expeditionary Forces]] (1917–1919) during [[World War I]]. He received intelligence training at [[Verdun-sur-Meuse|Verdun]], [[France]] and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers. Alternating between intelligence and artillery, he came under fire in the [[Meuse–Argonne offensive]].

==Business career==
After his discharge in 1919, Prescott Bush went to work for the [[Simmons Hardware Company]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]].

The Bush family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1923, where Prescott briefly worked for the [[Hupmobile|Hupp]] Products Company. In November 1923, he became president of sales for Stedman Products in [[South Braintree, Massachusetts]]. During this time, he lived in a [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] house at 173 Adams Street in [[Milton, Massachusetts]], where his son, George H. W. Bush, was born.

In 1924, Bush became vice-president of the investment bank [[Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.|A. Harriman & Co.]] where his father-in-law, [[George Herbert Walker]] was president. Bush's Yale classmates and [[Skull and Bones|fellow Bonesmen]] [[E. Roland Harriman]] and Knight Woolley also worked with the company.

In 1925, he joined the [[United States Rubber Company]] of New York City as manager of the foreign division, and moved to [[Greenwich, Connecticut]].

In 1931, he became a partner of [[Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.]], which was created through the 1931 amalgamation of A. Harriman & Co with [[Brown Bros. & Co.]], (a [[merchant bank]] founded in [[Philadelphia]] in 1818) and with [[Harriman Brothers & Co.]] (established in New York City in 1927).

He was an avid golfer, and in 1935 was named head of the [[USGA]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Prescott Bush Named Head Of U.S.G.A.|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The Washington Post
|date=November 9, 1934}}</ref>

From 1944 to 1956, Prescott Bush was a member of the [[Yale Corporation]], the principal governing body of Yale University. He was on the board of directors of [[CBS]], having been introduced to chairman [[William S. Paley]] around 1932 by his close friend and colleague [[W. Averell Harriman]], who became a major [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] power broker.

==Business Plot and Union Banking Corporation {{anchor|Bush and the Union Banking Corporation}}==
<!-- NOTE: THIS SECTION QUICKLY EXPLAINS THE 2007 HARPERS MAGAZINE ARTICLE AND STATES THAT BUSH WAS NOT INVOLVED. GO TO TALK PAGE BEFORE REMOVING-->In July 2007, ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' published an article by [[Scott Horton (attorney)|Scott Horton]], an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, claiming that Prescott Bush was involved in the 1934 [[Business Plot]], a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] [[Major General (United States)|Major General]] [[Smedley Butler]] into helping them overthrow President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<ref>[https://harpers.org/2007/07/1934-the-plot-against-america/ 1934: The Plot Against America], Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine, July 28, 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Navigation/Community/Arcadia-and-THP-Blog/September-2018/Smedley-Butler-and-the-1930s-Plot-to-Overthrow-the |title=Smedley Butler and the 1930s Plot to Overthrow the President |publisher=Arcadiapublishing.com |date= |accessdate=2022-08-21}}</ref>

Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including [[W. Averell Harriman]]) of the [[Union Banking Corporation]] (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate [[Fritz Thyssen]], an early supporter of [[Adolf Hitler]] and financier of the [[Nazi Party]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar|title=How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power|work=The Guardian |location=London |first1=Ben |last1=Aris |first2=Duncan |last2=Campbell |author-link2=Duncan Campbell (The Guardian) |date=September 25, 2004 |access-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name=Parmet /> In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank |date=July 31, 1941 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|page=1}}</ref> A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the [[Trading with the Enemy Act 1917|Trading with the Enemy Act]] and held the assets for the duration of [[World War II]].<ref name=guardian />

Journalist [[Duncan Campbell (The Guardian)|Duncan Campbell]] pointed out documents showing that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen. Bush was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into the war.<ref name=guardian /><ref name=Parmet>{{cite web|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1811 |title=What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to Nazism? |first=Herbert |last=Parmet |date=November 17, 2003 |publisher=[[History News Network]] |access-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref>

==Political life==
Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the [[American Birth Control League]] as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first nationwide campaign of [[Planned Parenthood]] in 1947. He was also an early supporter of the [[United Negro College Fund]], serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.

From 1947 to 1950, he served as Connecticut [[U.S. Republican Party|Republican]] finance chairman, and was the Republican candidate for the [[United States Senate]] in 1950. A columnist in [[Boston]] said that Bush "is coming on to be known as [[Harry S. Truman|President Truman's]] [[Harry Hopkins]]. Nobody knows Mr. Bush and he hasn't a [[Chinaman's chance]]."<ref>"Fair Enough" by Westbrook Pegler, ''Burlington Daily News-Times'' (North Carolina), August 22, 1950</ref> (Harry Hopkins had been one of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s closest advisors.) Bush's ties with Planned Parenthood also hurt him in strongly-Catholic Connecticut, and were the basis of a last-minute campaign in churches by Bush's opponents; the family vigorously denied the connection, but Bush lost to [[William Benton (senator)|Sen. William Burnett Benton]] by only 1,102 votes.<ref name="Gwirtzman 1952">{{cite web |last=Gwirtzman |first=Milton |title=The Campaign VI: Ohio: Fat Man's Chance |website=The Harvard Crimson |date=November 3, 1952 |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1952/11/3/the-campaign-probert-a-taft-isnt/ |access-date=March 16, 2025}}</ref>

Prescott Bush sought a rematch with Sen. Benton in 1952, but withdrew as the party turned to [[William Purtell]]. The death of Senator [[Brien McMahon]] later that year, however, created a vacancy and this time the Republicans {{nowrap|nominated Bush.<ref name=rnbalrd>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oaA0AAAAIBAJ&pg=1643%2C653871 |work=The Day |location=(New London, Connecticut) |agency=Associated Press |title=Republicans nominate Bush after Lodge rejects draft |date=September 5, 1952 |page=1}}</ref>}} He defeated the Democratic nominee, [[Abraham Ribicoff]], and was elected to the Senate. A staunch supporter of President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], he served until January 1963. He was re-elected in 1956 with 55% of the vote over [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Thomas J. Dodd]] (later U.S. Senator from Connecticut and father of [[Christopher J. Dodd]]), and decided not to run for another term in 1962. He was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's [[Interstate Highway System]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/rw01d.cfm|title=A Bush at Both Ends: Before and After the Interstate Era|publisher=U.S.[[Federal Highway Administration]]
|date=January 18, 2005|access-date=August 6, 2006}}</ref> and during his tenure supported the [[Ethan Allen class submarine|Polaris submarine]] project (built by [[Electric Boat Corporation]] in [[Groton, Connecticut]]), the establishment of the [[Peace Corps]],<ref name="Mansfield">{{cite book|title=The Faith of George W. Bush|author=Stephen Mansfield|publisher=Tarcher|url=http://www.ereader.com/product/book/excerpt/16982|year=2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234407/http://www.ereader.com/product/book/excerpt/16982|archive-date=September 26, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and voted in favor of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957|Civil Rights Acts of 1957]] and [[Civil Rights Act of 1960|1960]] and the [[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – August 7, 1957|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=103|issue=10|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=13900|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt10/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt10-9-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – August 29, 1957|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=103|issue=12|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=16478|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt12/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt12-6-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – April 8, 1960|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=106|issue=6|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|pages=7810–7811|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1960-pt6/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1960-pt6-8-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – March 27, 1962|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=108|issue=4|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=5105|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1962-pt4/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1962-pt4-9-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022}}</ref>

On December 2, 1954, Prescott Bush was part of the large (67–22) majority to [[censure]] [[Wisconsin]] Republican Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] after McCarthy had taken on the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] and the [[Eisenhower administration]]. During the debate leading to the censure, Bush said that McCarthy has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935382,00.html#ixzz1SCQ7EDbh | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108222755/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935382,00.html#ixzz1SCQ7EDbh | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 8, 2007 | magazine=Time | title=National Affairs: Splendid Job | date=December 13, 1954}}</ref> Eisenhower later included Prescott Bush on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination.

In terms of issues, Bush often agreed with [[Governor of New York|New York Governor]] [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. According to Theodore H. White's book about the 1964 presidential election, Bush and Rockefeller were longtime friends.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} Bush favored a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket for 1960, and was presumed to support Rockefeller's 1964 presidential candidacy until the latter's remarriage in 1963. He then publicly denounced Rockefeller for divorcing his first wife and marrying a woman with whom Rockefeller had been having an affair while married to his first wife.<ref name="Mansfield" /> Bush then very publicly endorsed his former Senate colleague [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], who was also the older brother of one of Bush's protegés, former Connecticut Governor [[John Davis Lodge]].<ref name="Mansfield" />

Another of Senator Bush's major legislative interests was flood and hurricane protection.  He drafted the Bush Hurricane Survey Act (Public Law 71), enabling U.S. Army engineers to develop a new program of community protection against tidal flooding.<ref>{{cite book |first1=John |last1=McQuaid |first2=Mark |last2=Schleifstein |title=Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms |year=2006 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company: Hachette Book Group USA|isbn=978-0-316-01642-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syU0LKDVUfkC |page=54}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=William R. |last1=Freudenburg |first2=Robert |last2=Gramling |first3=Shirley |last3=Laska |first4=Kai |last4=Erikson |title=Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow|year=2009 |publisher=Island Press |location=Washington, DC |isbn=978-1-59726-682-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vjj4FRZSVg0C&pg=PA26 |page=26}}</ref> Bush and Representative [[John W. McCormack]], the Democratic House Majority Leader, co-sponsored the Bush-McCormack Act (Public Law 685), which expedited the construction of local flood protection works.<ref>[https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/278 Item description: Prescott S. Bush Papers.] Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries. Accessed September 03, 2021.</ref>

==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 (1901–1992) 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|(1922–2010),<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|(1924–2018),}} [[Nancy Walker Bush Ellis|Nancy]] {{nowrap|(1926–2021),}} [[Jonathan Bush|Jonathan]] {{nowrap|(1931–2021),}} and [[William H. T. Bush|William "Bucky"]] {{nowrap|(1938–2018).<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, 1928–1935. 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]].

==Writings==
Bush's articles include:
* "Timely Monetary Policy", ''Banking'', June 1955 and July 1955
* "To Preserve Peace Let's Show the Russians How Strong We Are!" ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', July 1959
* "Politics Is Your Business", Chamber of Commerce, State of New York, ''Bulletin'', May 1960

==See also==
* [[List of members of the American Legion]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* The Prescott Bush Papers are at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
* The Greenwich Library Oral History Project has interviews with Prescott Bush Jr. and Mary Walker.
* There is material by and about Bush in the History of the Class of 1917 Yale College (1919) and the supplementary class albums.
* John Atlee Kouwenhoven, ''Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank'', [[Brown Brothers Harriman]] (1968).
* Obituaries are in the ''Washington Post'', October 9, 1972; the ''New York Times'', October 9, 1972; the ''Hartford Courant'', October 9, 1972; and ''Yale Alumni Magazine'', December 1972.
* Prescott Sheldon Bush. ''Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 9: 1971–1975''. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
* Darwin Payne, ''Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc., 1880–1978''. New York: Simon and Schuster (1979).

==External links==
{{commons category}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051024054819/http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Bush_PS/MSS19910001.html University of Connecticut's profile of Prescott Bush]
*{{IMDb name|1778210|Prescott Sheldon Bush}}

{{s-start}}
{{s-ppo}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Raymond E. Baldwin]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[United States Senator|U.S. Senator]] from [[Connecticut]]<br />([[Classes of United States Senators|Class 1]])|years=[[1950 United States Senate special election in Connecticut|1950]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[William A. Purtell]]}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Joseph E. Talbot]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[United States Senator|U.S. Senator]] from [[Connecticut]]<br>([[Classes of United States Senators|Class 3]])|years=[[1952 United States Senate special election in Connecticut|1952]], [[1956 United States Senate election in Connecticut|1956]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Horace Seely-Brown Jr.]]}}
|-
{{s-par|us-sen}}
{{s-bef|before=[[William A. Purtell]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[List of United States Senators from Connecticut|U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Connecticut]]|years=1952–1963|alongside=[[William Benton (politician)|William Benton]], [[William A. Purtell]], [[Thomas J. Dodd]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Abraham A. Ribicoff]]}}
{{s-end}}

{{USSenCT}}
{{Bush family}}
{{George H. W. Bush}}
{{George W. Bush}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Prescott}}
[[Category:1895 births]]
[[Category:1972 deaths]]
[[Category:American bankers]]
[[Category:American chief executives of financial services companies]]
[[Category:American Episcopalians]]
[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:American birth control activists]]
[[Category:Bush family]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Columbus, Ohio]]
[[Category:Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state)]]
[[Category:Connecticut Republicans]]
[[Category:Politicians from Braintree, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Politicians from Columbus, Ohio]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Greenwich, Connecticut]]
[[Category:People from Milton, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Republican Party United States senators from Connecticut]]
[[Category:United States Army officers]]
[[Category:Yale Bulldogs football players]]
[[Category:Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. people]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Connecticut]]
[[Category:St. George's School (Rhode Island) alumni]]
[[Category:Fathers of presidents of the United States]]
[[Category:Fathers of vice presidents of the United States]]
[[Category:Yale College alumni]]
[[Category:Members of Skull and Bones]]
[[Category:Burials at Putnam Cemetery]]
[[Category:20th-century United States senators]]