 As previously noted, Governor William Floyd "Bill" Weld is the grandson of Francis Minot Weld, Jr. After his grandfather's investment company was sold to the brokerage company "G.H.Walker & Co." (named for George Herbert Walker, Jr., uncle of President George H. W. Bush), the future governor served as director of the Bushes' company until it was bought by Merrill Lynch in the 1970s.Weld's first wife, Susan Roosevelt Weld, Harvard professor specializing in Ancient China and later General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, is a great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt.