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About Prescott Bush was NOT a nazi! I fought in WWI!

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May, 07, 2008 - May, 08, 2009
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Former United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. Father of former President of the United States George H. W. Bush and grandfather of current President George W. Bush.

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Born in Columbus, Ohio to Flora Sheldon and Samuel Prescott Bush. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, continuing a family legacy; four subsequent generations of Bushes have been Yale alumni. Prescott Bush was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity while at Yale and Skull and Bones secret society. Played varsity golf, football, and baseball, and was president of the Yale Glee Club.
Served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917-1919) during World War I. He received intelligence training at Verdun, France, and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers. Alternating between intelligence and artillery, Bush came under fire in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Been made a vice-president of A. Harriman & Co. by his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker. Also employed by the company were E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley, Bush's Yale classmates and fellow Bonesmen. Seven years later, Bush became a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. that was created through the1931 merger of Brown Bros. & Co., a merchant bank founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1818 with Harriman Brothers & Co., established in New York City in 1927, and A. Harriman & Co.
n 1952, he was elected to the Senate. A staunch supporter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he was reelected in 1956 with 55 percent of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Dodd (later U.S. Senator from Connecticut and father of the current U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Christopher J. Dodd), and decided not to run for another term in 1962. was also in staunch opposition to the Kennedy family, and especially President John F. Kennedy's maternal grandfather John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.

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Columbus, Ohio

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