Republican Convention: The Family Tree

It is full of high achievers, feisty women and twists of fate

  • Share
  • Read Later

(2 of 2)

SCOTT PIERCE Born: 1930 As president of E.F. Hutton & Co., he had to plead guilty to check kiting on behalf of the company, which was fined $2 million in 1985. He also rounded up investors for W.'s oil concern

MARTHA RAFFERTY 1920-1999 A model for Vogue, she was an active member of the G.O.P. in Hartford, Conn.

ROBIN BUSH 1949-1953 She died of leukemia two months before her fourth birthday

JOHN ELLIS "JEB" BUSH Governor of Florida Married to Columba, 47. Children: George Prescott, 24; Noelle, 23; Jebby, 16

NEIL BUSH Born: 1955 A management consultant in Texas Married to Sharon, 48. Children: Lauren, 16; Pierce, 14; Ashley, 11.

MARVIN BUSH Born: 1956 A businessman in Virginia. Married to Margaret, 41. Children: Marshall, 14; Charles, 10.

DOROTHY (BUSH) KOCH Born: 1959 A homemaker in Conn. Married to Robert, 40. Children; Sam LeBlond, 16; Ellie LeBlond, 13; Robert Koch, 7; Gigi Koch, 4

GEORGE W. BUSH Born: 1946 Presidential candidate Children: Jenna and Barbara, 18

LAURA (WELCH) BUSH Born: 1946 Aspiring first lady

OTHER INTERESTING RELATIONS

FRANKLIN PIERCE 14th President of the U.S. and punching bag for presidential historians, he is an ancestor of Scott Pierce, Barbara Bush's grandfather

THE QUEEN MUM AND QUEEN ELIZABETH According to Burke's Peerage of London, Britain's matriarchs are distant cousins of the Bushes. (The Queen Mother is a 13th cousin once removed from President Bush; the Queen is a 13th cousin twice removed from him)

JOHN WALKER Stricken with polio at 41, Dorothy Walker Bush's brother quit his surgery practice and became an investment banker. He was also president of Sloan-Kettering's Memorial Hospital in New York City, where ROBIN BUSH was treated for leukemia

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER JR. Dorothy's other brother was chairman of the board of the investment firm his father founded and an original co-owner of the New York Mets

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. Next Page