Prescott S. Bush Jr., 87, a retired insurance executive who was the older brother of one U.S. president and an uncle of another, died June 23 at his home in Hingham, Mass. The death was confirmed by his son James, but no cause was given.
Bush was a partner in the New York insurance brokerage firm Johnson & Higgins for more than 30 years before founding a nonprofit group that promoted investment and trade with China.
His father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963. His brother George served as the 41st president from 1989 to 1993, and his nephew George W. Bush served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009.
A son, Prescott S. Bush III, died in 2009.
Walter Shorenstein, 95, a real estate magnate and an adviser to U.S. presidents whose company controlled about 30 million square feet of commercial real estate nationwide, has died.
A spokesman for The Shorenstein Company said he died Thursday of natural causes at his San Francisco home.
The entrepreneur supported the Democratic Party and advised Presidents Johnson, Carter and Clinton.
A college dropout who served in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he moved to San Francisco with little money and a pregnant wife, then joined a commercial real estate firm. Within a few years, he bought out the company and renamed it.
Denver Post wire services
