Bush family


The Bush family is an American political family that has played a prominent role in American politics since the 1950s, foremost as the first family of the United States from 1989 to 1993, during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and again from 2001 to 2009, during that of George W. Bush. They also played prominent roles in areas of American news, sports, entertainment, and business. They were also the second family of the United States from 1981 to 1989, when George H. W. Bush was vice president. The Bush family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others were the Adams, Roosevelt, and Harrison families.
Best known for their involvement in politics, family members have held various national and state offices spanning across four generations, including that of U.S. senator ; governor ; and President. Other family members include a National Football League executive and two nationally known television personalities and journalists.
The Bush family is of primarily English and German descent. The Bush family traces its European origin to the 17th century, with Samuel Bush being their first American-born ancestor, in 1647. According to the Swedish Colonial Society, the Bush family also has Swedish ancestry, going back ten generations to a Swedish farmer named Måns Andersson who migrated from Gothenburg to New Sweden.

Relatives

Ancestors

Patrilineal line

  • John Bush Sr
  • * John Bush Jr
  • ** Reynold Bush
  • *** John Bush III, born in Messing, Essex, England and the last English ancestor
  • **** Samuel Bush
  • ***** Richard Bush
  • ****** Timothy Bush may have been the son of Richard Bush.
  • ******* Timothy Bush Jr. was the son of Timothy Bush.
  • ******** Obadiah Newcomb Bush was the son of blacksmith Timothy Bush Jr. and was an American prospector and businessman.
  • ********* James Smith Bush, an attorney and Episcopal priest in New Jersey, California, and New York, was the son of Obadiah Bush and the father of Samuel Prescott Bush.
  • ******* John Bush
  • ******** George Bush was a biblical scholar and Swedenborgian minister who wrote the book Life of Mohammed.

Other relatives

Connections to other prominent families

was a wealthy American banker and businessman. His daughter Dorothy married Prescott Bush, making him the maternal grandfather of the 41st president George H. W. Bush and the great-grandfather of the 43rd president George W. Bush. He is also the namesake of the Walker Cup, a men's amateur golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years between a U.S. team and a combined Great Britain and Ireland side.
The influential Lowthorp family, with longstanding roots in American and British politics, military, clergy and business—and strong ties to institutions such as the Freemasons, is related to the Bush family through Samuel P. Bush and Rev. John Lathrop.
Flora Sheldon, wife of Samuel P. Bush, was a distant descendant of the Livingston, Schuyler, and Beekman families, prominent New Netherland merchant and political patrician families.
Barack Obama is a 10th cousin once-removed of George W. Bush, through Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod.

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Awards and honors

Sports

Politics/public service

Military

Family network

The following organizations are associated with the Bush family.

Businesses

Charities, colleges & nonprofit organizations

Political offices held

President

Vice President

  • George H. W. Bush – 1981–1989

U.S. Congress

Governor

  • George W. Bush – 1995–2000
  • Jeb Bush – 1999–2007

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