Bush family

• John Bush Sr (1510–1590)
  • John Bush Jr (1535–1595) [10]
    • Reynold Bush (1566–unknown) [11]
      • John Bush III (1593–1670), born in Messing, Essex, England and the last English ancestor [12]
        • Samuel Bush (1647–1733) [13]
          • Richard Bush (c. 1676–1742 in Bristol, Plymouth Colony) [14]
            • Timothy Bush (1728–1821 in Springport, New York) may have been the son of Richard Bush.[15]
              • Timothy Bush Jr. (1761–1850 in Penfield, New York) was the son of Timothy Bush.[16]
                • Obadiah Newcomb Bush (January 28, 1797 – 1851) was the son of blacksmith Timothy Bush Jr. and was an American prospector and businessman.[17]
                  • James Smith Bush (1825–1889), 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.[18]
              • John Bush (1761-unknown)
                • George Bush (1796–1859) was a biblical scholar and Swedenborgian minister who wrote the book Life of Mohammed.

• Col. Robert Bolling Sr. (1646–1709) of Kippax Plantation was an Early American settler in the colony of Virginia whose son, Robert Bolling Jr., was a Bush family ancestor. Bolling Sr. later had children with Jane Rolfe, the granddaughter of Pocahontas.
• Edith Wilson (1872–1961), second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was also descended from Col. Robert Bolling Sr. so therefore was distantly related to the Bush family.
• Wild Bill Hickok (1837–1876) was a second cousin three times removed of Prescott Bush.[2]
• John Howland (1592/1593–1672/1673) and Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687), Mayflower passengers, through their daughter Hope.[19]
• Gov. Thomas Hinckley (1618–1706) was a Plymouth Colony governor, and a seventh generation great-grandfather of Prescott Sheldon Bush, so therefore a direct ancestor of all of his descendants including his son George H. W. Bush and grandson George W. Bush.[2]
• Mary Parker (1637–1692) was executed by hanging in 1692 for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials.[20][21]
• Through John May and his wife Prudence Bridge (great-great-grandparents of Obadiah Newcomb Bush), the family is related to U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte (1851–1921), U.S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes (1865–1951), actress Blanche Oelrichs (who was also known by the pseudonym "Michael Strange") (1890–1950), and author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888).[2]
• Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American five star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army who was the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the Pacific theater during World War II was distantly related to the Bush family.[22]
• Asahel Bush (1824-1913) was an early Oregon pioneer. He started the first Oregon printing shop, and founded and published the Oregon Statesman. He later sold the newspaper and founded the Ladd & Bush Bank. He also was a convention delegate and chairman for the Democratic Party (United States). Asahel Bush II is the namesake for Bush's Pasture Park in Salem, Oregon. Asahel Bush was descended from Samuel Bush (1647–1733).[13]

Former presidents George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush in Houston, Texas, 2009

George Herbert "Bert" Walker (1875–1953) 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.

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.

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• Two-time Super Bowl champion – Joe Ellis (as an executive with the Denver Broncos)
• 1986 Theodore Roosevelt Award – George H.W. Bush
• 2007 National Football Foundation Gold Medal – George H. W. Bush
• World Golf Hall of Fame – George H. W. Bush (class of 2011)

• Three-time Time Person of the Year
  • George H. W. Bush (1990)
  • George W. Bush (2000, 2004)
• Two-time Silver Buffalo Award winners
  • George H. W. Bush (1990)
  • George W. Bush (2002)
• Seven statues
  • George H.W. Bush – three (Houston, TX, Rapid City, SD, Washington, D.C.[31])
  • George W. Bush – three (Rapid City, SD, Hamilton, OH, Fushe Kruje, Albania)[32]
  • George H.W./George W. Bush (shared) – one (Dallas, TX)
• 1989: Jersey Street in College Station, TX renamed George Bush Drive in honor of George H.W. Bush
• 1997: George Bush International Airport named in honor of George H. W. Bush
• 2007: Ronald Reagan Freedom Award – George H. W. Bush
• 2010: Presidential Medal of Freedom – George H. W. Bush
• 2013: Portion of U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas, TX renamed George W. Bush Expressway

• Presidential Unit Citation – George H. W. Bush
• Distinguished Flying Cross – George H. W. Bush
• Three-time Air Medal recipient – George H. W. Bush
• Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath – George H. W. Bush
• Commander of the Order of St John – William H. T. Bush[33]
• USS George H.W. Bush commissioned in 2009 – George H.W. Bush
• National Defense Service Medal – George W. Bush, George P. Bush
• Joint Service Commendation Medal – George P. Bush

• George H. W. Bush (41st) – 1989–1993
• George W. Bush (43rd) – 2001–2009

• George H. W. Bush – 1981–1989

• Prescott Bush (Senator from Connecticut) – 1952–1963
• George H. W. Bush (Representative from Texas) – 1967–1971

• George W. Bush (Texas) – 1995–2000
• Jeb Bush (Florida) – 1999–2007

• George H. W. Bush
  • UN Ambassador (1971–1973)
  • RNC Chairman (1973–1974)
  • Ambassador to China (1974–1975)
  • CIA Director (1976–1977)
• Jeb Bush
  • Florida Secretary of Commerce (1987–1989)
• George P. Bush
  • Texas Land Commissioner (2015–present)