Birth Name: George Walker Bush
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut
Date of Birth: July 6, 1946
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Type/Color: Gray
Ethnicity: English, some German, along with Welsh, Irish, French, Scottish, Dutch, Moravian (Czech), Swedish, Belgian (Flemish), possibly Italian
Family info: George Walker Bush served as the 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009). He was also the 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000). He is the son of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and Barbara (Pierce) Bush. One of his siblings is Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Most of President Bush’s ancestry is English, along with some German, and small amounts of Welsh, Irish, French, Scottish, Dutch, Moravian (Czech), Swedish, and Belgian (Flemish).
President Bush’s paternal grandparents were Prescott Sheldon Bush (the son of Samuel Prescott Bush and Florence “Flora” Sheldon) and Dorothy Walker (the daughter of George Herbert Walker and Lucretia/Loulie Wear).
President Bush’s maternal grandparents were Marvin Pierce (the son of Scott Pierce and Mabel Marvin) and Pauline Robinson (the daughter of James Edgar Robinson and Lula Dell Flickinger).
There is a claim on several web sites that one of President Bush’s paternal great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers, Victor Emanuel Bechi, was Italian. It is not clear if this claim is accurate. Victor Emanuel Bechi is described in one reference book as having come from “Strasburg in the Province of Alsace-Lorraine” (in “Americans of gentle birth and their ancestors”, Volume 1, Hannah Daviess Pittman, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1970). That suggests that Victor Emanuel Bechi may have been of ethnic German origin. The surname “Bechi” can be Italian.
Sources: Genealogy of George W. Bush – http://www.wargs.com/politcal/bush.html
http://www.triontopublishing.com/cache/bushroyalty.htm
Some notes on the Czech roots of George W. Bush – http//www.svu2000.org/issues/bush.htm