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{{Infobox offieholder
|name=Bryan Edward Bush, Jr.
|office=District Attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish, [[Louisiana]]
|term_start=1985
|term_end=1990
|preceded=Sargent Pitcher
|succeeded=Douglas Moreau
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
|birth_date=April 14, 1934
|death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
|death_date=December 4, 2010 (aged 76)
|resting_place=Greenoaks Memorial Park Mausoleum in Baton Rouge
|spouse=Julia Taulman Bush
|children=Four children
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=[[Lawyer]]
|alma_mater=[[Southern Methodist University]]<br>
[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center
}}
'''Bryan Edward Bush, Jr.''' (April 14, 1934 – December 4, 2010), was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] of the 20th century to hold the position of district attorney of East Baton Rouge Parish, [[Louisiana]].
Elected in 1984, Bush took office in 1985 and resigned in 1990 after pleading guilty to a [[misdemeanor]] charge of maintaining incomplete office records. Bush had been an assistant district attorney under the two-term [[Democratic Party|Democat]], Ossie Brown, but he unseated Brown, who sought a third term. A resident of Baker, Brown held the position from 1972 to 1984.<ref name=kk>Katy Kennedy, "Former EBR District Attorney Bush Dies,'' ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'</ref>
==Background==
Bush was born in [[Shreveport]] to Bryan Bush and Sallie M. Clingman. He graduated from [[Southern Methodist University]], where he was on the Mustangs [[baseball]] team and a member of the fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order.[4] Thereafter, he received his law degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=bryan-edward-bush&pid=146976748|title=Bryan Bush obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 6, 2010|accessdate=June 4, 2019}}</ref>
==DA political matters==
Bush retained the Democrat Hillar Moore, III, the current district attorney who had also been an assistant to Ossie Brown. Douglas Moreau, a fellow Republican, succeeded Bush as district attorney in 1991, having won a landslide election in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 6, 1990.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Primary election returns, October 6, 1990</ref>
Upon Bush's death, Moore described the former DA as having been intent on prosecuting criminals and public officials accused of corruption. After Bush resigned as DA, he returned to the private practice of law.<ref name=kk/>
Moore, who had since been a defense attorney in private practice, won the DA's position in 2008 with the support of both Bush and Moreau.<ref>Joe Gyan, Jr., "Moreau backs Moore for EBR district attorney," ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'', July 21, 2016.</ref>
Moore handily defeated the Republican Dan Claitor, subsequently the winner of a [[special election]] in the spring of 2009 for the state Senate seat vacated by [[U.S. Representative]] and later [[U.S. Senator]] [[Bill Cassidy]] of Baton Rouge.
==Family and death==
In his later years, Bush had been in declining health caused by multiple sclerosis , which was initially diagnosed when Bush was thirty-seven. [2] [4] He died at his Baton Rouge home of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-six.
Bush was survived by his wife, the former Julia Taulman (born May 25, 1934); three daughters, a son, ten grandchildren, and a sister, Jo Bush Chandler. A funeral mass was said at St. Aloysius [[Roman Catholic]] Church in Baton Rouge; he was entombed at Greenoaks Memorial Park Mausoleum.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Bryan}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
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{{Infobox offieholder
|name=Bryan Edward Bush, Jr.
|office=District Attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish, [[Louisiana]]
|term_start=1985
|term_end=1990
|preceded=Sargent Pitcher
|succeeded=Douglas Moreau
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
|birth_date=April 14, 1934
|death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
|death_date=December 4, 2010 (aged 76)
|resting_place=Greenoaks Memorial Park Mausoleum in Baton Rouge
|spouse=Julia Taulman Bush
|children=Four children
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=[[Lawyer]]
|alma_mater=[[Southern Methodist University]]<br>
[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center
}}
'''Bryan Edward Bush, Jr.''' (April 14, 1934 – December 4, 2010), was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] of the 20th century to hold the position of district attorney of East Baton Rouge Parish, [[Louisiana]].
Elected in 1984, Bush took office in 1985 and resigned in 1990 after pleading guilty to a [[misdemeanor]] charge of maintaining incomplete office records. Bush had been an assistant district attorney under the two-term [[Democratic Party|Democat]], Ossie Brown, but he unseated Brown, who sought a third term. A resident of Baker, Brown held the position from 1972 to 1984.<ref name=kk>Katy Kennedy, "Former EBR District Attorney Bush Dies,'' ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'</ref>
==Background==
Bush was born in [[Shreveport]] to Bryan Bush and Sallie M. Clingman. He graduated from [[Southern Methodist University]], where he was on the Mustangs [[baseball]] team and a member of the fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order.[4] Thereafter, he received his law degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=bryan-edward-bush&pid=146976748|title=Bryan Bush obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 6, 2010|accessdate=June 4, 2019}}</ref>
==DA political matters==
Bush retained the Democrat Hillar Moore, III, the current district attorney who had also been an assistant to Ossie Brown. Douglas Moreau, a fellow Republican, succeeded Bush as district attorney in 1991, having won a landslide election in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 6, 1990.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Primary election returns, October 6, 1990</ref>
Upon Bush's death, Moore described the former DA as having been intent on prosecuting criminals and public officials accused of corruption. After Bush resigned as DA, he returned to the private practice of law.<ref name=kk/>
Moore, who had since been a defense attorney in private practice, won the DA's position in 2008 with the support of both Bush and Moreau.<ref>Joe Gyan, Jr., "Moreau backs Moore for EBR district attorney," ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'', July 21, 2016.</ref>
Moore handily defeated the Republican Dan Claitor, subsequently the winner of a [[special election]] in the spring of 2009 for the state Senate seat vacated by [[U.S. Representative]] and later [[U.S. Senator]] [[Bill Cassidy]] of Baton Rouge.
==Family and death==
In his later years, Bush had been in declining health caused by multiple sclerosis , which was initially diagnosed when Bush was thirty-seven. [2] [4] He died at his Baton Rouge home of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-six.
Bush was survived by his wife, the former Julia Taulman (born May 25, 1934); three daughters, a son, ten grandchildren, and a sister, Jo Bush Chandler. A funeral mass was said at St. Aloysius [[Roman Catholic]] Church in Baton Rouge; he was entombed at Greenoaks Memorial Park Mausoleum.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Bryan}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Catholics]]