Barbara Bush est née le 8 juin 1925 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis. Elle était mariée à George Bush. Elle est morte le 17 avril 2018 au Texas, États-Unis.
She and Abigail Adams were the only women, so far, in American history who have been the wife of one president and the mother of another president. First Lady Anna Elizabeth (Symmes) Harrison was the only woman to have been both the wife of a U.S. president (William Henry Harrison) and the grandmother of a U.S. president (Benjamin Harrison).