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  1. Apr 17, 2018 · George Bush and his wife Barbara on the night of his 1966 election to the House of Representatives for Texas's 7th Congressional District in Houston

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    • 1925. Barbara Bush was born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925, in New York City. She was raised just outside the city in Rye, New York, by her parents, Pauline and Marvin Pierce, and her father was the president of the magazine publisher McCall Corporation.
    • 1941. At just 16 years old, Barbara met her future husband, George H.W. Bush, at a dance while they were both still in high school. Just as they were introduced, a waltz started to play.
    • 1945. While George was away at war, Barbara studied at Smith College in Massachusetts, though she dropped out by the time George returned to the United States on leave in early 1945.
    • 1946. The couple welcomed their first child, the future 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, in 1946. Three years later, Barbara gave birth to their second child, Pauline Robinson — nicknamed Robin.
  2. Apr 18, 2018 · Here, Barbara Bush is seen alongside former first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rosalynn Carter. The former US first lady, mother of a president and literacy...

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  3. Apr 18, 2018 · Barbara Pierce, future first lady Barbara Bush, in her graduation photo from Ashley Hall, a finishing school in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1943. Navy Lieutenant George Bush and Barbara...

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    • In The Early Days
    • At The Beginning
    • Watching Her Husband Become Cia Director
    • Celebrating Her Husband's Victory
    • Walking with The Reagans
    • Advocating For Literacy
    • Campaigning For George W.
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    George W. Bush is their eldest son, pictured here in 1955. Barbara and George Sr. had six children, but one of them — Robin — died from leukemia at the age of three. According to the New Yorker, Barbara wrote extensively about Robin's deathin her memoir, and it was a tragedy that stayed with her throughout her life.

    Barbara Bush became involved in political circles long before her husband became the president of the United States. Here she is in 1971, just one year after her husband lost his second bid for the Senate. At this point in her life, Bush was making important connections with diplomatsin New York City after Richard Nixon asked her husband to be the ...

    In January 1976, George H.W. Bush was sworn in as director of the CIAby United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. As she later did during his inauguration, Barbara Bush attended the swearing-in ceremony and held a bible for her husband.

    After George H.W. Bush won the 1989 presidential election, he and Barbara Bush attended a victory rally in Houston, Texas.

    Eight years after attending Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Barbara Bush attended her own husband's inauguration in 1989. George H.W. Bush was Reagan's vice president for both of his terms before assuming the presidency himself. Here, the Bushes and Reagans are seen walking down the Capitol steps following Bush's presidential inauguration.

    When Barbara Bush was First Lady, she started the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, in order to make literacy more accessible to families with fewer resources. According to Quartz, Bush also published two children's books. In this photo, Bush was reading Arthur Meets the Presidentto a group of third-graders at a public school in East Har...

    Just seven years after she left the White House, Barbara Bush hit the campaign trail once again— this time for her son, George W. Bush, who went on to win two terms in office. This photo was taken during a campaign stop at Bishops Court Retirement Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

    In 2003, a portrait of presidents George W. and George H.W. was unveiled at the George Bush Library in College Station, Texas.

    Barbara and George H.W. Bush were married for 73 years as of this January — the longest presidential marriage in American history. They met at a Christmas dancewhen Barbara was just 15 years old, and were engaged less than two years later. Here they are at the Republican National Convention in 2008, where John McCain was chosen as the GOP nominee.

    In 2013, Barbara Bush and four other first ladies — Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Rosalyn Carter — attended the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

  4. Jan 20, 2017 · Former first lady Barbara Bush, the matriarch of a Republican political dynasty and a first lady who elevated the cause of literacy, died April 17, 2018, at age 92. Here, she listens as her son,...

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  6. Apr 18, 2018 · The former US first lady, mother of a president and literacy campaigner has died at the age of 92.

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