Government & military
Prescott Bush
Banker and later U.S. senator
Also known as Prescott S. Bush
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Prescott Bush was an investment banker and later a U.S. senator from Connecticut. He appears here through BBH’s account of its private-client business and a 1942 UBC vesting order. That order lists one share registered in his name, separately from its beneficial-ownership finding. These records establish specific financial-history connections, without establishing a UAP role.
His connection is institutional and financial context; the cited records do not establish a UAP role.
Selected contributions
Primary records
Archival document · 1942
Vesting Order 248: Union Banking Corporation
The order lists registered Union Banking shareholders and states the Alien Property Custodian’s separate beneficial-ownership finding. It documents a specific wartime vesting action, not the knowledge or motives of every named shareholder.
Executed October 20, 1942; published in the Federal Register on November 7, printed page 9097.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Relevant Federal Register scan page visually read Reused prior inspected evidence: Relevant Federal Register scan page visually read
In the timeline
Documented connections
Documented · listed shareholder
The order lists Prescott S. Bush as the registered holder of one UBC share.
This is not a finding of beneficial ownership or a statement about BBH’s own assets.
Read the relationship record →Attributed · described role
BBH’s history describes Bush developing its private-client business.
The organization’s self-history is attributed; this does not establish a UFO connection. The self-history says 1930 while the dedicated chronology says 1931; this range represents unresolved dating, not a verified two-year tenure.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- Vesting Order 248: Union Banking Corporation ↗Federal Register / Office of Alien Property Custodian
- Prescott Bush establishes private wealth management business ↗Brown Brothers Harriman
- A Bush at Both Ends: Before and After the Interstate Era ↗Federal Highway Administration
Portrait credit
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.. Public domain in the United States (Commons file-specific declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain in the United States (Commons file-specific declaration) ↗
