Jenna Bush biography

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Born November 25th, 1981, in Dallas, Texas. Jenna Welch Bush was born one minute after her fraternal twin sister, Barbara. She was named after her maternal grandmother Jenna Hawkins.

Bush graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, in 2000, the same year her father was elected president. As the Bush family settled into the White House, Jenna attended the University of Texas in Austin, where she began to attract attention as an underage partier. In April 2001, Bush was charged with possession of alcohol as a minor. The following month, she was charged with attempting to use her grandmother's ID to purchase alcohol. She pleaded no contest to both misdemeanors.

While at UT, Jenna became a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and graduated in 2004 with a degree in English. She made several appearances with her sister on behalf of their father's re-election campaign, including a speech for the Republican Convention. After the election, Bush taught third grade at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, D.C, for a year and a half. In 2006, she visited Africa with her mother. She then worked as an intern for UNICEF, where she taught in Latin America and visited drought-stricken Paraguay. The trip inspired the children's book, Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope (2007), based on the life of a 17-year-old Latin American single mother infected with HIV.

On August 15th, 2007, Jenna Bush became engaged to Henry Chase Hager, whom she'd met on the campaign trail for her father in 2004. Hager was a White House aide for Karl Rove, and the son of former Virginia Republican Party Chairman John H. Hager. The couple was married in May of 2008 on the Bush ranch in Texas.

Most recently, Jenna and her mother co-authored Read All About It! (2008), a book that urged children to read.

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