Round 12: Tossup 7

An attorney from this family served as “acting chaplain” aboard the USS Monadnock as Commodore John Rodgers’s secretary and was partly named James Smith. Though at one point controlled by the Rockefellers, the steelmaker Buckeye Steel Castings was run by an executive from this family. Abraham Ribicoff was defeated in a 1952 special election by a Republican politician from this family who was a two-term Connecticut Senator. Geronimo’s skull may have been stolen by Prescott, a politician from this family, (10[1]-5[1])whose son was accused of being “born with a silver foot in his mouth” by Ann Richards. A politician from this family failed to uphold his promise, “Read my lips: no new taxes.” For 10 points, a politician from what family defeated Michael Dukakis to become the 41st president? ■END■ (10[1])

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