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Barbara Pierce Bush
Born	November 25, 1981 (1981-11-25) (age 26) Dallas, Texas
Residence	New York City, New York
Parents	George W. Bush Laura Bush

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. Barbara Bush was born in Dallas, Texas, at Baylor University Medical Center.^[1]

Sister of Jenna Bush, together they are known as the first 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. She graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a degree in Humanities.

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.^[2] 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. Barbara was charged the following year with a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of alcohol in Austin and pleaded no contest.^[3] She chose to attend 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.^{[citation needed]}

Barbara lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.^[4] Recently she has been working for a Smithsonian museum in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.^[5][6] 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^{[7][8][9][10]}

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

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 US Presidential election, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31. ^[11] The two took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in Vogue magazine.^[12] The media also extensively covered the campaigning of John Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra, making the "battle of the daughters" a human interest element of the campaign.^{[citation needed]} 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.

• Jenna Bush, twin sister
• Laura Bush, mother
• President George W. Bush, father
• former First Lady Barbara Bush, grandmother
• former President George H.W. Bush, grandfather

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