Oceangate Owner Stockton Rush Family History and Net Worth
Stockton Rush Family History includes signers of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton. Rush comes from an affluent background.
Stockton is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of OceanGate. He founded the company in 2009 and developed “submersibles” capable of reaching depths up to 4000 meters below sea level. The company also operates chartered missions to the wreckage of the Titanic.
Rush is one of the five people missing on OceanGate’s Submersible called Titan, he was piloting the craft when it went missing on June 18, 2023, at about 13:45 UTC. Titan stopped communication with the surface vessel after one hour and 45 minutes of submerging.
Stockton was a thrill seeker and adventure lover since his childhood, he was a licensed jet pilot at the age of 19 years old and worked with McDonnell Douglas as a test pilot for their F-15 program before establishing his company OceanGate.
He was an extreme thrill seeker, and during a podcast with CBS News, he said “At some point, safety just is pure waste, I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything.” according to SFGATE.
Stockton comes from an affluent dynasty from San Francisco, his ancestors from both his father’s and mother’s side were politically powerful and headed some of the largest businesses in the United States of America.
Other notable American families include The Busch and The Debarge Families.
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Stockton Rush Family History
Stockton Rush family history starts with Benjamin Rush, the one who signed the Declaration of Independence. Stockton grandmother came from an oil business dynasty.
Rush’s clan has not just one but two people who bear their signatures on one of the most important documents in the history of the United States of America. He is also related to Richard Stockton. Benjamin’s son Richard and Stockton’s daughter Catherine are OceanGate’s founder’s great-grandparents. Benjamin and Richard Stockton, the Declaration of Independence signers, are OceanGate’s founder’s great-great-grandparents.
Richard Sr. is the grandfather of OceanGate’s CEO, he was born July 14, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents Benjamin Rush and Mary Wheeler Lockwood. Richard Sr. attended Princeton University. He was married to Deborah Norris Brock.
The union of Richard Sr. and Deborah Norris produced three children Richard Rush Jr., Lockwood Rush, and John Rush. The Rushs migrated to New York City, from Philadelphia before once again moving to San Franciso when Richard Jr. came of age.
Net Worth
Stockton Rush family net worth is $12 million made from his company OceanGate and his previous job. They made money from Oil Industry in the mid-1900s.
Rush started his company in 2009 and holds a sizable share of stocks in OceanGate, he works as CEO receiving the executive salary, and has held former positions in several companies, out of all these income sources, Stockton is reported to have a fortune of $12 million according to Distractify.
However, his ancestry is much more affluent and richer. Although the actual figure of their fortune has not come to the surface yet, his great-grandfather from his grandmother’s side Ralph K. Davies was the youngest director at Standard Oil in America.
According to SFGATE, Ralph K. Davies was already working as an office boy in California. He rose through positions to become the youngest director in the company’s history. He also worked with the Department of the Interior during WWII as a petroleum administrator.
His grandfather worked as chairman of Peregrine Oil, and Gas Company in Burlingame, and Natomas Company in San Francisco.
Stockton Rush Parents
Stockton Rush parents were Ellen Rush and Richard Rush Jr. The couple met in 1957 at a high society ball and got engaged a month later.
Ellen is the daughter of Ralph and Louise Davies. His father Richard Rush Jr. was also known as Tock” Rush. The pair’s wedding was covered by San Francisco Examiner and featured a full-page picture on the front page of the newspaper.
His father Richard Jr. served in US Marines Corps between 1953 and 1955, he was also part of an elite volunteer reconnaissance unit. Richard Jr. was also involved in multiple Oil and Gas projects and construction projects. He is also credited with the construction of the New Zealand of Takaro.
Richard played in the theater production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and received numerous acclamations and accolades for the role of a frustrated executive. He also established Recovery Institute and played a huge part in education regarding Alcohol Abuse.
Richard Jr. passed away on Jan. 1, 2000, over 23 years ago after suffering short health problems according to his obituary published by his alma mater Princeton.
On the other hand, Richard’s mother Ellen Rush has not made much of a public appearance or has revealed her career publicly. Ellen passed away young, as she preceded her mother Louise Davis in death, according to SFGATE.
Stockton also had a stepmother named Nancy in his family, according to his father’s obituary published by Princeton. He also has two sisters Deborah and Catherine, but it is unclear if they are siblings or half-siblings.
His Wife Wendy Rush Works At OceanGate
Stockton Rush wife Wendy Rush works at OceanGate as Director of Communication. Wendy and Rush are married three and a half decades earlier on July 5, 1986.
Wendy joined OceanGate in an executive position in June 2021 as Comms and Tracking Team Member and later assumed her current role as Director of Communications in January 2022.
She has been involved with the OpenGate Foundation since 2013 as a board member and served as president for four years between 2017 and 2021.
Wendy attended The Hotchkiss School and later went to Princeton University. She is also a licensed pilot and has previously worked as a substitute teacher and accountant for Ladd Associates in San Francisco.
She is the daughter of Dr. Richard Weil the 3rd and Mrs. Polly Weil. Her father Dr. Richard worked as a professor of surgery and director of transplantation at the University of Colorado Medical School.
Her mother Mrs. Polly Weil worked as a partner for a Denver-based interior designing firm Reynolds & Weil at the time of Wendy and Stockton’s wedding.
Wendy’s great-great-grandparents Isador and Ida Straus were among the 1500 people who died while Titanic sank in the cold water of the Atlantic Ocean during its Maiden Voyage in 1912. They were among the wealthiest aboard the ship and Isador refused to get on life rafts and Ida stood beside her husband, both sank with the ship holding each other, according to Yahoo.
Stockton and Wendy got married on July 5, 1986, in front of their relatives and friends. Jean Hellen Weinberg was the maid of honor and John Christian Stauffer was the best man at the wedding.
Their wedding was officiated by Rev. George B. Edgar at Vail Chapel in Colorado. George Edgar who officiated the wedding was Wendy’s great-uncle.
Stockton And Wendy Have Two Adult Children
Stockton Rush kids Quincy Rush and Richard Rush are both adults. Quincy is a law clerk at US District Court in California and Richard is a pilot.
Quincy Rush
Quincy Rush is the only daughter of OceanGate CEO Rush and his wife Wendy Rush.
Quincy is currently working as Judicial Law Clerk at the United States District Court, Central District of California, according to her LinkedIn profile. She holds the position since August 2022.
She has held multiple positions in different firms in the past, she started her career as a research assistant at Child Development Lab in February 2015, she worked as an Intern at Seneca Family of Agencies, a Policy Assistant at the Association of California Cities – Orange CountyAssociation, among others.
Quincy’s legal career started as a Legal Extern at United States Attorneys’ Offices in the Central District of California. She has worked as an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and as a child advocate at Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
She attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school education, she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Social Behavior at UC Irvine, and later her JD degree at the University of Chicago Law School.
Quincy is 32 years old as of 2023 and she is found on Instagram with her username @quinrush where she has shared 105 posts to her 540 followers, but her posts are only available to her followers as she has kept her account private at the moment.
Richard Rush
Richard Rush is the only son of OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton and his wife Wendy Rush.
Richard is their first-born son, he is 33 years old as of 2023 and is the older sibling to his law clerk sister Quincy Rush. According to Daily Mail, Richard is a pilot based in Washington but details of his career are unavailable.
Furthermore, Daily Mail claims Richard is a married man with a family of his own and shares his father’s interest in exploration and adventure. Richard does not have a publicly available social media account to share his passion for adventure.
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