Barbara Pierce Bush

Infobox_Person
name = Barbara Pierce Bush


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caption = Barbara Pierce Bush at her sister's wedding
birth_date = bda|1981|11|25
birth_place = Dallas, Texas
parents = George W. Bush
Laura Bush
residence = New York City, New York:"For the wife of George H.W. Bush, see Barbara Bush."Barbara Pierce Bush (born November 25, 1981) is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

Education and work

Sister of Jenna Bush, now Jenna Welch Hager, together they are known as the First Twins, both because they are the children of the U.S. President and because they are the first twin children of a sitting president. Barbara is named after her paternal grandmother, former First Lady Barbara Bush. Barbara Bush was born at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. [cite web
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title=Neonatal care at Baylor University Medical Center: You've come a long way, baby!
accessdate=2007-10-02
date=2004-07-17
author=Whitfield, Jonathan M.]
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Jenna and Barbara Bush with their parents George W. Bush and Laura Bush]

When the family lived in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, she and her sister attended Preston Hollow Elementary School; Laura Bush served on Preston Hollow's Parent Teachers Association at that time. [Pulle, Matt. [http://www.dallasobserver.com/2007-01-11/news/split-decision/1 "Split Decision"] , "Dallas Observer", January 11, 2007.] Later, she 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. In 1996, Barbara began attending Austin High School, graduating with the class of 2000. [cite news|url=http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/040400/gen_private.shtml|title=Bush used private school option|author=Associated Press|date=2000-04-04|accessdate=2006-08-22] She attended Yale University which is the alma mater of her father, grandfather George H.W. Bush, great-grandfather Prescott Bush, and great-great-great-grandfather James Smith Bush. [" [http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/01/30/tem_bush_twins_shun.html Bush twins shun spotlight] ." "The Cincinnati Enquirer".] She graduated from Yale in 2004 with a degree in Humanities. She was a legacy member of Kappa Alpha Theta, both her mother and twin sister's sorority.

Barbara lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.cite web | work = New York Post Online Edition | url = http://www.nypost.com/seven/11092006/gossip/pagesix/secure_location_pagesix_.htm | title = SECURE LOCATION | accessdate = 2007-01-24 | date = 2006-11-09 ] Recently she has been working for a Smithsonian museum in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. [Argetsinger, Amy & Roxanne Roberts. [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060703/news_lz1n3nowread.html "First Twin Jenna Bush may leave D.C. social scene"] , "Washington Post", July 3, 2006.] [Minzesheimer, Bob. [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-03-05-jenna-bush_N.htm/ Jenna Bush embarks on book 'Journey'] , USA Today, March 6, 2007.] Previously, Barbara 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 [http://bayloraids.org/ International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative] [cite news | work = Washington Post | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50537-2004May23.html | title = Telephoto Finish: The Bush Twins Graduate From College, and Private Life | date = 2004-05-24 | author = Dana Milbank | page = Page C01 | accessdate = 2007-01-24] [cite web | url = http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1121318105164R131 | title = Bush twins not deterred by shutterbugs | date = 2005-07-14 | author = Jennifer Loven | work = Independent Online (Pty) Ltd. "IOL" | accessdate = 2007-01-24 ] [cite news | url = http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2005/07/06/bush_daughter_is_said_to_volunteer_in_s_africa/?page=full | title = Bush daughter is said to volunteer in S. Africa | author = John Donnelly | date = 2005-07-06 | work = The Boston Globe | accessdate = 2007-01-24 ] [cite web | url = http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=23889 | work = Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report | title = Bush's Daughter to Intern for Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatric AIDS Initiative Clinics in Africa | date = 2004-05-25 | accessdate = 2007-01-25 ]

Media coverage

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. [cite web | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51005-2004Aug31.html | work = The Washington Post | title = Remarks by Barbara and Jenna Bush to the 2004 Republican National Convention | date = 2004-08-31 | accessdate = 2007-01-24 ] The two took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in "Vogue".cite journal | url = http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/071404/page2.html | title = Jenna and Barbara Bush: Sister Act | author = Julia Reed | journal = Vogue | month = August | year = 2004] Barbara joined her mother on diplomatic trips to Liberia in January 2006 to attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and to Vatican City to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2006.

ee also

* Jenna Bush, twin sister

References

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