Prescott Bush (Napoleon's World)

Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 - October 8, 1972) was the 30th President of the United States, serving from 1945-1953, and was also a Senator from Connecticut from 1935-1941, a banking executive, an economic advisor for the Hoover Administration and a noted proponent of free trade. He is regarded as a National Party icon, and his socially liberal and fiscally conservative stances influenced later leaders such as Dick Van Dyke, Robert Redford and Steve Martin.

Bush is typically also regarded as the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of George Bush, the 48th Vice President of the United States, and the paternal grandfather of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who was the 2004 National Party nominee for President, and of Texan oil billionaires, George W. and Neill Bush, owners of LoneStar Petroleum and Resources.