Bush, Barbara, 1925-

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Barbara Bush (1925-) was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1992. She was born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925, to Marvin Pierce (a president of McCall publishing company) and Pauline (Robinson) Pierce. She attended Smith College. She grew up in Rye, New York, where she met and later married George Herbert Walker Bush on January 6, 1945. The Bushes' first daughter, Robin, died in 1953 after fighting Leukemia, but today the family includes four sons (George W., Jeb, Marvin and Neil); one daughter (Dorothy); four daughters-in-law; one son-in-law; and 14 grandchildren. Throughout her years in public life, she volunteered in and supported hundreds of charity and humanitarian causes. During her time as first lady, she focused on literacy, visiting literacy programs around the United States and founding the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 1989.

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referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush pose with their children, their spouses and grandchildren for a family portrait in Houston, Texas George Bush Library
referencedIn Education -- Barbara Bush Middle School. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Mrs. Bush visits patients at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. Photographs Relating to the Secretary's Trips, Speeches, and Other Functions, and Agency Officials, Events, and Managed Sites. 2002-2013. National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush greet the troops of the First Division Marine Command Post during their visit to Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush walk along Pennsylvania Avenue after the President's Inauguration George Bush Library
referencedIn United States. White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 16, 1990 George Bush Library
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, February 20, 1991 George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Mrs. Bush attends the United Nations International Literacy Day Celebration in New York City with children from the New York City schools George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush await the arrival of President Ali Abdallah Saleh of the Yemen Arab Republic for a State Dinner at the White House George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush pose with their grandchildren on the rocks at Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush host a State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of Great Britain at the White House George Bush Library
creatorOf United States. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. NCLIS records, 1971-[ongoing], (bulk 1977-1987). University of Michigan
referencedIn Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) Archives, 1885-1990s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush participate in a tree planting ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House George Bush Library
referencedIn Garden Club of Houston. Records, 1929-1992. Hirsch Library Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush walk towards Marine One to leave for Camp David George Bush Library
referencedIn National Republican Congressional Committee. George H.W. Bush collection, 1988-2009. Brick Store Museum
referencedIn General Records of the Department of Education. 1967 - 2005. Photographs of Agency Activities National Archives at College Park
creatorOf George H. W. Bush Library Museum Collection. 1981 - 2004. Post-Presidential Gifts Received by George H. W. and Barbara Bush
referencedIn Houston Post, Washington D.C. Bureau, Collection, 1963-1995 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
creatorOf Bush, Barbara, 1925-. Letter to Margaret McDonald. Houston, TX. 1979 Sept. 30. University of Iowa Libraries
referencedIn President (University of Michigan) records, 1967-2010 Bentley Historical Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush show Russian President Boris Yeltsin the South Grounds of the White House and stop at the south fountain to pose for a photograph George Bush Library
referencedIn United States. White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 15, 1990 George Bush Library
referencedIn George H. W. Bush Papers. 1942 - 2004. World War II Correspondence George Bush Library
referencedIn Barbara Bush visit collection, 1991. South Carolina State University, Miller F. Whittak, Miller F. Whittaker Library
referencedIn United States. White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 20, 1991 George Bush Library
creatorOf Shatz, Frank. Frank and Jaroslava Shatz Papers. William & Mary Libraries
referencedIn William C. Friday Papers, 1942-1999 and undated (bulk 1985-1999) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Vice President and Mrs. Bush traveling on Air Force II during the 1984 Presidential Campaign George Bush Library
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, February 4, 1991 George Bush Library
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 27, 1991 George Bush Library
creatorOf Steorts, Nancy Harvey, 1936-. Nancy Harvey Steorts papers, 1937-2000, (bulk 1970-1990). Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 26, 1991 George Bush Library
referencedIn General Records of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 1931 - 2003. Central Photograph Files National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Photograph of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush and presentation certificate. [manuscript], 1990. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Historical Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Photograph of Barbara Pierce Bush at Age Seven George Bush Library
creatorOf Sanguinetti, Elise. Elise Ayers Sanguinetti papers, 1929-2003. University of Alabama
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 21, 1991 George Bush Library
creatorOf BUSH, BARBARA. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
referencedIn Cooper, Lorraine Rowan, 1906-1985. Papers, 1936-1983 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush walk with their grandchildren at Camp David George Bush Library
referencedIn Monterey Public Library. California History Room. Distinguished visitors clippings 1903-2007 Monterey Public Library
referencedIn Papers, 1949-2007 (inclusive), 1971-2004 (bulk). Center for the History of Medicine. Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 29, 1991 George Bush Library
referencedIn Elise Ayers Sanguinetti papers MSS. 0098., 1929-2003 W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
referencedIn Douglas, Rosslee Tenetha Green, 1928-. Rosslee Tenetha Green Douglas papers, 1938-2001. University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George and Barbara Bush on their wedding day in Rye, New York George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President Bush works at his desk in the Oval Office as Mrs. Bush looks at photographs on the table behind the Oval Office desk George Bush Library
referencedIn George H. W. Bush Papers. 1942 - 2004. Dorothy Walker Bush Materials George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush take a last walk around the White House Grounds George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George and Barbara Bush with their first born child George W. Bush, while Bush was a student at Yale George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Photograph of President George and Barbara Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine George Bush Library
referencedIn University of Pennsylvania. Office of the President. Assistant to the President for Special Projects. Records, 1977-1994. University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center
referencedIn United States. Department of the Treasury. Photographs of U.S. Presidents, Department Officials and Personalities, and Facilities, 1949-1995 National Archives at College Park
creatorOf George H. W. Bush Papers. 1942 - 2004. China Files George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Mrs. Bush and Raisa Gorbachev deliver Commencement Addresses at Wellesley College George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Office of Press Secretary (George H. W. Bush Administration). 1987 - 1/20/1993. Internal Transcript Files George Bush Library
referencedIn Printed materials, 1989-2000. University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Vice President and Mrs. Bush at their summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine with their family George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush help kick-off Great American Workout Month by participating in the Great American Workout with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan on the South Lawn George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Office of Press Secretary (George H. W. Bush Administration). 1987 - 1/20/1993. Marlin Fitzwater's Alphabetical Subject Files related to the Bush Family George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. Photographs of Agency Personnel National Archives at College Park
creatorOf Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979. Autograph collection, 1930-1996 (bulk: 1930-1979) Massachusetts Historical Society
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President-elect and Mrs. Bush have their picture taken by their granddaughter, Barbara Bush, at the Inaugural Gala on January 19, 1989 at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C George Bush Library
referencedIn Norman H. and Charlotte Strouse collection of letters of the presidents, 1780-1990 Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department
referencedIn Houston Post, Washington D.C. Bureau, Collection, 1963-1995 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn University of Pennsylvania. 250th Anniversary Commission. Records, 1940-1992 (bulk, 1986-1992). University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center
referencedIn Bill Archer Papers, 1970-2000 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn United States. White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling. President's Daily Diary Entry, January 23, 1991 George Bush Library
referencedIn Julie Cooke Papers. 1989 - 1992. Subject Files George Bush Library
referencedIn Philip Agee Papers, Bulk, 1965-2000, 1948-2007 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Press Office speech files, 1986, 1989-2000, undated, (bulk 1995-2000) Texas State Archives
creatorOf Barbara Pierce Bush Papers. 1945 - 2004. Family Scrapbooks George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush host a State Dinner for Russian President and Mrs. Boris Yeltsin at the White House George Bush Library
referencedIn Obama Inaugural Photograph Collection, 2009-197., 2009 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George and Barbara Bush in Houston, Texas on the night which George Bush was elected to Congress George Bush Library
referencedIn White House Office of Appointments and Scheduling Files. 1989 - 1993. Presidential Daily Diary and Presidential Daily Backup Materials. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President's Daily Diary Entry, February 24, 1991 George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. During Mrs. Bush's speech at the Republican National Convention at the Houston Astrodome, her grandson George P. Bush makes remarks about his grandfather George Bush Library
referencedIn Papers of Catherine Filene Shouse, 1878-1998 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. Mrs. Bush and Missouri Governor John Ashcroft attend a quot;Parents as Teachersquot; parent/child group at the Ferguson-Florissant School District in Florissant, Missouri where Mrs. Bush reads quot;Brown Bear Brown Bearquot; to the children George Bush Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Photograph Office. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs. 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993. President and Mrs. Bush walk towards their home on Walker's Point after the President's arrival from Washington George Bush Library
referencedIn Papers, 1936-1983 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
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parentOf Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- person
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