Up for auction "First Lady" Barbara Bush Hand Signed Time Magazine Cover Dated 1989. 

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 Barbara

Pierce Bush (June 8, 1925 –

April 17, 2018) was the first lady of the United States from

1989 to 1993 as the wife of President George H. W. Bush, and the founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation

for Family Literacy She previously was the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Among

her six children are George W. Bush, the 43rd

president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida.

She and Abigail Adams are the only two women

to be married to one U.S. president and the mother of another. Barbara Pierce

was born in Manhattan, New York City. She met George

Herbert Walker Bush at the age of sixteen, and the two married in Rye, New York in 1945, while he was on leave during his

deployment as a Naval officer in World War II. They moved to Texas in

1948, where George later began his political career. Barbara Pierce was born on

June 8, 1925, at Booth Memorial Hospital,

which at that time was located at 314 East 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City, to Pauline Pierce (née Robinson)

and Marvin Pierce. She was raised in the

suburban town of Rye, New York. Her father later

became president of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's

magazines Redbook and McCall's. She had two elder siblings, Martha (1920–1999)

and James (1922–1993), and a younger brother, Scott (b. 1930). Her ancestor

Thomas Pierce Jr., an early New England colonist, was also an ancestor of Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. She

was a fourth cousin, four times removed, of Franklin Pierce and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Pierce and her three siblings were raised in a house on Onondaga Street in Rye.

She attended Milton Public School from 1931 to 1937, Rye Country Day School until

1940 and later the boarding school Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina,

from 1940 to 1943. In her youth, Pierce was athletic and enjoyed swimming,

tennis, and bike riding.Her interest in reading began early in life;

she recalled gathering and reading with her family during the evenings.