Charles V. Bush

Biography

Charles Vernon Bush (December 17, 1939 – November 5, 2012) was an American civil rights activist, retired senior corporate executive and former U.S. Air Force officer. In 1954, at the urging of Chief Justice Earl Warren, who had asked for the appointment of an African-American page of the Supreme Court of the United States, Bush was selected as the first one by the court's marshal, T. Perry Lippitt. He was also one of the first three African-American Cadets to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy and the first African American to graduate from there.

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