KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, Aug. 7 -- George P. Bush, a nephew of the president and son of the Florida governor, married Fort Worth attorney Amanda Williamson Saturday evening at a seaside Episcopal church.
Among the guests at the 40-minute ceremony were President Bush, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the groom's grandfather, former president George H.W. Bush.
George Prescott Bush, known to relatives as "P," was a regular on the 2000 campaign trail for his uncle, specializing in Hispanic and female outreach, and has been mentioned as a possible successor in the Bush political dynasty. The presidents Bush call each other "41" and "43," and some people close to the family said they can imagine the young Bush, who is finishing a clerkship for a federal judge in Dallas, as "47."
People magazine ranked the younger Bush No. 5 on its list of 100 most eligible bachelors in 2000. Now 28, Bush met his bride while they were students at the University of Texas Law School. His undergraduate degree is from Rice University.
Bush, the bilingual son of a Mexican-born mother, will join the Dallas office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld after his clerkship.
The White House press pool spent the ceremony in vans parked alongside Ocean Avenue, off church property. The president attended the rehearsal dinner Friday night but skipped the reception.
The two-minute motorcade from the family compound at Walker Point to St. Ann's Episcopal Church included nine black Suburbans filled with Secret Service agents. The president waved to the press pool from the Suburban that carried him and his mother. Shortly after arriving Friday afternoon, the president went out on his father's speedboat, Fidelity III, which has three 275-horsepower engines. The two went out on the Atlantic again Saturday morning, with the president's twins, Jenna and Barbara, as a Coast Guard cutter idled nearby.
"Get that fish?" Bush called to a boat of photographers. "Thirty-eight inches! Jenna caught it," Bush said.
The Bush seaside compound includes at least seven buildings and a tennis court. A flagpole on the point captures the family's multiple political allegiances, with the standards of the United States, the presidency, Maine, Texas and Florida.
