Barbara Pierce Bush

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Barbara Pierce Bush
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Barbara in May 2008, at the wedding of Jenna Bush.
Born Barbara Pierce Bush
(1981-11-25) November 25, 1981 (age 42)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Residence New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater Yale University, (B.A. in Humanities, 2004)
Parent(s) George W. Bush and Laura Bush
Relatives Dorothy Walker Bush (great-grandmother)
George H.W. Bush (grandfather)
Barbara Bush (grandmother)
Jenna Bush Hager (sister)
Jeb Bush (uncle)

Barbara Pierce Bush (born November 25, 1981) is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters (the other is Jenna Bush Hager) of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. She is also a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and his wife Barbara Bush, after whom she was named.

Early life

Jenna and Barbara Bush with their parents George W. Bush and Laura Bush

Barbara Pierce Bush was born at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.[1] When the family lived in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, she and her twin sister, Jenna, attended Preston Hollow Elementary School; Laura Bush served on Preston Hollow's Parent Teachers Association at that time.[2] Later, Barbara and Jenna attended The Hockaday School in Dallas. When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Barbara attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. She began attending Austin High School in 1996, graduating with the class of 2000.[3]

Bush attended Yale University where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.[4]

Career

She worked for the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution.[5][6] Previously, she had been working with AIDS patients in Africa, in Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana, among other places, through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative.[7][8][9][10]

Global Health Corps

She is the Co-founder and President of a public health-focused non-profit, Global Health Corps.[11] Global Health Corps provides opportunities for young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the front lines of the fight for global health equity.[12] In 2009, Global Health Corps won a prestigious Draper Richards Foundation Fellowship.[13] Bush was also chosen as one of the 14 speakers selected from an applicant pool of 1,500 to speak at the TEDx Brooklyn event in December 2010, where she spoke about Global Health Corps.[citation needed]

Barbara Bush (second left) at the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI

Political activity

In 2011, Bush released a video with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, calling on New York State to legalize same-sex marriage.[14][15] "'I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,' she says in the brief message, sponsored by an advocacy group. 'New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love.'"[15] Bush joined other children of prominent Republican politicians—including Meghan McCain and Mary Cheney—in endorsing gay marriage.[15]

Barbara's graduation from Yale in May 2004 was given heavy media coverage. She and Jenna made several media appearances that summer prior to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31.[16] The two took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in Vogue.[17][18] Barbara joined her mother on diplomatic trips to Liberia in January 2006 to attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf[19] and to Vatican City to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2006.

Ancestry

Family of Barbara Pierce Bush
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Samuel P. Bush
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Prescott Bush
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Flora Sheldon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. George H. W. Bush
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. George Herbert Walker
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Dorothy Walker
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Lucretia Wear
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. George Walker Bush
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Scott Pierce
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Marvin Pierce
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Mabel Marvin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Barbara Pierce
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. James E. Robinson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Pauline Robinson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Lula D. Flicking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Barbara Pierce Bush
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. William Franklin Welch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Mark Anthony Welch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Nancy Jane Aldridge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Harold Bruce Welch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Marie Lula Lane
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Laura Lane Welch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Charles Wesley Hawkins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Halsey Sinclair Hawkins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Martha Jennie Allen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Jenna Louise Hawkins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Joseph Allen Sherrard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Jessie Laura Sherrard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Eva Louise Lamaire ou Lemaire
 
 
 
 
 
 

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