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Jenna Bush
Jenna Bush poses for a photographer prior to her wedding to Henry Hager at Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas.
Born	November 25, 1981 (1981-11-25) (age 27) Dallas, Texas
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Teacher Author Correspondent
Spouse(s)	Henry Chase Hager
Parents	George W. Bush and Laura Bush
Relatives	George H. W. Bush (grandfather)

Jenna Welch Hager,¹ (née Bush, born November 25, 1981; Dallas, Texas),² is the younger of the fraternal twin daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, and a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush. She and her sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, were the first twin children of a sitting president. Hager is a teacher, author and correspondent for NBC's Today show.³

Early life and education

Jenna Bush and Barbara Bush with their parents George W. Bush and Laura Bush

Bush was named after her maternal grandmother, Jenna Hawkins Welch.⁴ Bush was educated at several primary and secondary schools. In Dallas, Texas, she and her sister attended Preston Hollow Elementary School and then The Hockaday School. In 1994, after her father was elected Governor of Texas and the family moved to Austin, Texas, Bush was a student at St. Andrew's Episcopal School. She attended Austin High School from 1996 until her graduation in 2000.⁵ She attended The University of Texas at Austin. She was a legacy member of Kappa Alpha Theta, both her mother and twin sister's sorority. While at University of Texas, Jenna and her sister Barbara made national headlines when they were both arrested for alcohol related charges twice within 5 weeks. ⁶

2004 U.S. Presidential election

Jenna Bush (second from right) witnesses her father taking the oath on Inauguration Day

She had asked her father not to run for president in 2000: "Oh, I just wish you wouldn't run. It's going to change our life." Her father told her that he and her mother needed to live their lives.⁷ However, in the winter of 2003, she decided to become involved in the 2004 campaign.⁷ In response to this decision, she made media appearances during the summer of 2004 prior to the election. She and her sister made several joint public appearances, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31, 2004.⁸ She made headlines when she was found sticking her tongue out to media photographers at a campaign stop in St. Louis.⁹ Jenna and Barbara took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in Vogue.⁴ 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.

Career

Teaching

Before leaving Washington, D.C. in Summer 2006, Bush taught at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for a year and a half.¹⁰ She took a leave of absence from the Charter School teaching position to work at a shelter as part of an internship for UNICEF's Educational Policy Department in Latin America, specifically in Panama.¹¹¹² After her internship for UNICEF, Bush returned to her teaching position at the charter school in Washington, D.C.¹³ She currently works as a reading coordinator at a school in Baltimore, Maryland, and will be contributing a monthly news story about education for the Today show.¹⁴

Writing

Jenna Bush (left), with her mother, her twin sister, and Elmo, at the Sesame Workshop Fifth Annual Benefit Dinner

In 2007, Bush began marketing a book proposal with the assistance of Robert B. Barnett, a Washington attorney.¹⁵ The title of the book is Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope and it chronicles her experiences working with UNICEF sponsored charities in Latin America, including visits to drought stricken Paraguay in 2006, while working as an intern for United Nations Children's Fund.^16171819 HarperCollins announced in March 2007 it would publish the book and it was released September 28, 2007, with an initial printing of 500,000 copies.²⁰ Her share of the profits will go to UNICEF; the remainder will go to the woman whose life is the basis of the book, assisting in the young woman's continuing education.²¹ During the book tour, to promote the book, Bush appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show; during the interview Jenna telephoned her parents.²²²³ Bush wrote a second book, in conjunction with her mother, which is designed to encourage children to read.²⁴ The book, entitled Read All About It!, was published on April 22, 2008, also by HarperCollins.²⁵

Personal life

Engagement and marriage

Barbara Bush (left), Laura Bush, newlyweds Henry and Jenna Hager, and George W. Bush shortly after the wedding ceremony on May 10, 2008 at the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas.

On August 15, 2007, Henry Chase Hager proposed to Jenna Bush on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine.^26272829 Jenna met Henry during her father's 2004 presidential campaign.³⁰ Their relationship became public when the two appeared together at a White House dinner for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in November 2005. Henry Hager is currently a graduate student in business administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He worked as a U.S. Department of Commerce aide for Carlos Gutierrez and as a White House aide for Karl Rove.³¹ He is the son of former Virginia Republican Party Chairman John H. Hager, who previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and as the U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary under George W. Bush.³² The wedding occurred during a private ceremony on May 10, 2008 at her parents' Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas. On June 21, 2008, President Bush hosted a wedding reception for Jenna and Henry at the White House. The guests included many Republicans, such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. The United States Marine Band performed.³³

Bibliography

• Bush, Jenna (2007). Ana's Story--A Journey of Hope. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06137-908-5
• Bush, Laura, Jenna Bush, & Denise Brunkus (illustrator) (2008). Read All About It!. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06156-075-8

References

External links

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