Bush Foundation
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The Bush Foundation was created in 1953 by Archibald Granville Bush
an American businessman primarily involved with 3M and his wife, Edyth Bassler Bush. The organization awards $40 million a year to philanthropic organizations, primarily located in Minnesota
and the Upper Midwest
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Archibald Bush
Archibald Granville Bush was an American businessman primarily involved with 3M.Bush was born in Granite Falls, Minnesota, and worked on the family farm as a youth, but his hayfever encouraged him to move to Duluth and study business. In 1914, he was hired as sales manager for the then-struggling...
an American businessman primarily involved with 3M and his wife, Edyth Bassler Bush. The organization awards $40 million a year to philanthropic organizations, primarily located in Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
and the Upper Midwest
Upper Midwest
The Upper Midwest is a region in the northern portion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States. It is largely a sub-region of the midwest. Although there are no uniformly agreed-upon boundaries, the region is most commonly used to refer to the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and...
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