Samuel Bush
 Samuel Bush    (Businessman) | |
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| Born | Samuel Prescott Bush October 4, 1863 Essex County, New Jersey, USA |
| Died | February 8, 1948 (Age 84) Columbus, Ohio |
| Alma mater | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Religion | Episcopal |
| Parents | • James Smith Bush • Harriet Fay |
| Children | • Prescott Sheldon Bush • Robert Bush Mary Bush-House • Margaret Bush-Clement James Smith Bush II |
| Spouse | • Flora Sheldon • Martha Bell Carter |
| Member of | Bush family |
| Interests | • War Industries Board • John D. Rockefeller • E. H. Harriman |
Bush family patriarch, from a wealthy background, who got into railroads and then finance. | |
Samuel Prescott Bush was an American businessman and industrialist. Bush was the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, the paternal grandfather of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and patrilineal great-grandfather of former Texas Governor and President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Background
Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey in 1884.
Career
Bush took an apprenticeship with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad at the Logansport, Indiana shops, later transferring to Dennison, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio, where in 1891 he became Master Mechanic, then in 1894 Superintendent of Motive Power. In 1899, he moved to Milwaukee to take the position of Superintendent of Motive Power with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
In 1901, Bush returned to Columbus to be General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings company, which manufactured railway parts. The company was run by Frank Rockefeller, the brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and among its clients were the railroads controlled by E. H. Harriman. The Bush and Harriman families were to be closely associated from then on. In 1908, Rockefeller retired and Bush became president of Buckeye, a position he would hold until 1927, becoming a wealthy industrialist.
Political prominence
In the spring of 1918, banker Bernard Baruch was asked to reorganize the War Industries Board during World War I, and placed several prominent businessmen to key posts. Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies.[1]
Bush served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (as well as of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus).[2] In 1931, he was appointed to Herbert Hoover's President's Committee for Unemployment Relief, chaired by Walter S. Gifford, then-President of AT&T.[3] He was once recommended to serve on the board of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, but Hoover did not feel he was sufficiently known nationally.[2]
References
- ↑ "Members of the War Industries Board Organization". U.S. War Industries Board. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office: 39. 1919.
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20090615093554/http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=009179.html&StartPage=74&EndPage=82&volume=91&newtitle=Volume%2091%20Page%2074
- ↑ http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu
