QUESTIONS:
1. Kitty Kelley's controversial new book on President Bush's family has sparked new interest in the political history of the Bushes. In three generations of Bushes leading up to the President, how many family members have won elective office?
2. All of the Bushes who won elective office have the distinction of having first lost a political race. Who is the only Bush family member to have lost an election and never run for office again?
3. Sen. Prescott Bush (R.-Conn.), grandfather of the President, won his second term in 1956 over the father of a current Democratic senator. Can you name him?
4. George H. W. Bush was defeated in a race for the Senate from Texas in 1970 by a Democrat who himself became a player in national politics. Who was he?
5. In the only race he ever lost, George W. Bush was defeated for Congress from Texas in 1978 by a Democrat who later became a Republican. Can you name him?
ANSWERS:
1. Four: Prescott Bush, grandfather, who was Republican U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1952-62; George H.W. Bush, his son, who was Republican U.S. House member from Texas from 1966-70 and President from 1988-92; George W. Bush, grandson, who was Republican governor of Texas from 1994-2000 and has been President since 2000; and Jeb Bush, George W.'s brother, who has been Republican governor of Florida since 1994.
2. Prescott S. Bush, Jr., son of the former senator and elder brother of George H.W. Bush, who lost the Republican nomination for the Senate from Connecticut to incumbent Lowell P. Weicker in 1982.
3. Thomas J. Dodd, father of Sen. Christopher Dodd (D.-Conn).
4. Lloyd Bentsen, who served as Democratic senator from 1970-92, was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1988, and secretary of the Treasury from 1992-94.
5. Kent Hance, who served as a Democratic House member from 1978-84, lost a race for the Senate in '84, and became a Republican the following year.
