Barbara_Pierce_Bush

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Pierce Bush Barbara Pierce Bush Barbara Pierce Bush Barbara Pierce Bush at her sister’s wedding Born November 25, 1981 (1981-11-25) Dallas, Texas New York City, New York Yale University George W. Bush Laura Bush Residence Alma mater Parents Jenna and Barbara Bush with their parents George W. Bush and Laura Bush 2000.[3] She attended Yale where she was a legacy member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority (her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush, and her twin sister Jenna are also members of Kappa Alpha Theta). On April 29, 2001, Bush was charged with a Class C misdemeanor for being in the possession of alcohol under the age 21 in Austin. On May 29, 2001, Bush was charged with another misdemeanor — attempting to use a fake ID (with the name Barbara Pierce, her paternal grandmother’s maiden name) to purchase alcohol. She pleaded no contest to both misdemeanors.[4] Barbara lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.[5] Recently she has been working for a Smithsonian museum in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.[6][7] 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 International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative[8][9][10][11] She currently works for a public health-focused non-profit, Global Health Corps.[12] For the wife of George H.W. Bush, see Barbara Bush. Barbara Pierce Bush (born November 25, 1981, Dallas, Texas) is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, and granddaughter of the 41st US President George H. W. Bush. Sister of Jenna Welch Hager, together they were known as the First Twins, both because they are the children of the former President of the United States and because they were 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.[1] Education and work 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.[2] 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 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 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Pierce Bush Barbara Bush (second left) at the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI election, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31.[13] The two took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in Vogue.[14] 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. References [1] Whitfield, Jonathan M. (2004-07-17). "Neonatal care at Baylor University Medical Center: You’ve come a long way, baby!". http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ articlerender.fcgi?artid=1200659. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. [2] Pulle, Matt. "Split Decision", Dallas Observer, January 11, 2007. [3] Associated Press (2000-04-04). "Bush used private school option". http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/040400/ gen_private.shtml. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. [4] "Alcohol sentence for Bush daughter". BBC. June 8, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/ 1379000.stm. [5] "SECURE LOCATION". New York Post Online Edition. 2006-11-09. http://www.nypost.com/seven/11092006/ gossip/pagesix/ secure_location_pagesix_.htm. Retrieved on 2007-01-24. [6] Argetsinger, Amy & Roxanne Roberts."First Twin Jenna Bush may leave D.C. social scene", Washington Post, July 3, 2006. [7] Minzesheimer, Bob. Jenna Bush embarks on book ’Journey’, USA Today, March 6, 2007. [8] Dana Milbank (2004-05-24). "Telephoto Finish: The Bush Twins Graduate From College, and Private Life". Washington Post: p. Page C01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/A50537-2004May23.html. Retrieved on 2007-01-24. [9] Jennifer Loven (2005-07-14). "Bush twins not deterred by shutterbugs". Independent Online (Pty) Ltd. "IOL". http://www.int.iol.co.za/ index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1121318 Retrieved on 2007-01-24. [10] John Donnelly (2005-07-06). "Bush daughter is said to volunteer in S. Africa". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/world/ africa/articles/2005/07/06/ bush_daughter_is_said_to_volunteer_in_s_africa/ ?page=full. Retrieved on 2007-01-24. [11] "Bush’s Daughter to Intern for Baylor College of Medicine’s International Pediatric AIDS Initiative Clinics in Africa". Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. 2004-05-25. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/ daily_reports/ rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=23889. Retrieved on 2007-01-25. [12] "Playing House in the White House". The Wall Street Journal. 2009-01-20. http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB123239885943895155.html?mod=rss_Today%27s Retrieved on 2009-01-20. [13] "Remarks by Barbara and Jenna Bush to the 2004 Republican National Convention". The Washington Post. 2004-08-31. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/A51005-2004Aug31.html. Retrieved on 2007-01-24. [14] Julia Reed (August 2004). "Jenna and Barbara Bush: Sister Act" ( – Scholar search). Vogue. http://www.style.com/ vogue/feature/071404/page2.html. External links • Barbara Bush at the Internet Movie Database 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Pierce Bush Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Pierce_Bush" Categories: 1981 births, Austin High School (Austin, Texas) alumni, Bush family, Dutch Americans, English Americans, French Americans, German-Americans, Irish-Americans, ScottishAmericans, Swedish-Americans, Children of Presidents of the United States, Living people, People from Dallas, Texas, People from New York City, Twin people, Yale University alumni This page was last modified on 31 March 2009, at 19:42 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) 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