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Barbara BushU.S. First Lady
Born: 8 June 1925 Birthplace: Rye, New York Best known as: U.S. First Lady, 1989-93 Name at birth: Barbara Pierce Barbara Bush is the wife of president George Bush and the mother of president George W. Bush. She met the elder Bush as a teenager, and dropped out of Smith College to marry him on 6 January 1945 while he was on leave from his service as a World War II Navy pilot. The Bushes had six children: George W., Robin, John (also known as Jeb, later the governor of Florida), Neil, Marvin and Dorothy. Robin died of leukemia in 1953. A popular First Lady, Bush was particularly interested in promoting literacy and later created her own private foundation devoted to the cause. She wrote the best-selling Millie's Book (1990), a story of life in the White House as told by the family dog, and the autobiographical Barbara Bush: A Memoir (1994). Copyright © 1998-2006 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved. More on Barbara Bush from Infoplease:
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