The Bush Family
While certainly not mentioned with the same reverent tone as the Kennedy’s, the Bush’s can undoubtedly be seen as the other family in American politics that have wielded an equal amount of power and influence in the 20th century, if not arguably more.
Much like with Joseph Kennedy Snr, the patriarch of the Bush family, Prescott Bush, had similarly grand ambitions for his offspring and shared the same rather questionable rise to power as his Kennedy counterpart.
Before being voted in as the senator representing Connecticut in 1952, Prescott had made his money first as a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., one of the oldest and largest banks in the United States, before becoming one of the seven founding directors of the Union Banking Corporation.
This is where the questionable nature of how he made his money would come into play if some researchers and historians are to be believed.
