How Samuel P Bush Laid The Groundwork For The Bush Political Family!
Though his name has since faded from the minds of most Americans, without Samuel P Bush, the Bush family as we know it today would've never come to be.
And whilst he never held political office himself, the relationships he forged as a businessman and industrialist allowed his son to make a fortune on Wall Street, his grandson to become vice president and later president, and his great-grandson to become president as well!
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Ancestry
Descended from a family primarily of English and German ancestry, Samuel P Bush's earliest recorded ancestor was John Bush Sr., who was born in the English village of Messing, in Essex circa 1510.
Fast forward three generations and 83 years, the Bush family were still living in Me...