William Henry Trotter "Bucky" Bush (born July 14, 1938 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is the youngest son of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the younger brother of former President George H.W. Bush, and the uncle of former President George W. Bush.
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Biography
He earned a BA from Yale University in 1960.
Bush has worked in banking and venture capital, and sits on a number of corporate boards. In 1986 he founded Bush O'Donnell & Co., and remains the CEO of that firm. He has worked on the election campaigns of George H.W., George W., and Jeb Bush, primarily as a fundraiser.
He resides in St. Louis, Missouri, also the home of his late grandfather George Herbert Walker.
A former president of and director of the St. Louis-based Boatmen's Bancshares from 1978 to 1986 he is active in various St. Louis civic functions including being chairman of the Board of Trustees of Saint Louis University (1985-92), chairman of the Missouri Botanical Gardens (1991-93) and president of the Municipal Opera Association (The MUNY) (2005-06).[1]
Controversy
In 2005, reports emerged that Bush had garnered significant profits from the sale of Engineered Support Systems, a defense contractor working for The Pentagon in Iraq and Afghanistan.[2] Further reports in 2006 corroborated these stock sales in the range of $1.9 million.[3]
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