It looks like another White House wedding is underway. The White House announced that Jenna Bush, one of President Bush’s twin daughters, is engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager.
Jenna Bush and Hager have been dating for at least two years, according to reports in the Style Weekly newspaper in Richmond.
Hager interned for White House political adviser Karl Rove from 2004-2006. Hager’s father, former Virginia Lieutenant Governor John H. Hager, served in Bush’s Department of Education and is now chairman of Virginia’s Republican Party.
Jenna Bush is a 2004 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in English. Before becoming an intern with the United Nations Children’s Fund, she was an elementary school teacher in Washington for about 18 months.
Her fiance, a 2000 graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a student at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in Charlottesville. He returns there at the end of this month to start his second and final year. (bloomberg)
The last time there was a White House wedding was in 1994 when Nicole Boxer, daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Tony Rodham, the younger brother of then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton married.
In 1971, President Nixon’s daughter, Tricia, was married in style to Harvard law student Edward Cox. She walked down the staircase of the columned South Portico and danced at a reception in the ornate East Room.
Other presidential daughters to have all or part of their weddings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue include: President Johnson’s daughter, Luci Baines Johnson Nugent, who had her wedding reception at the White House in August 1966, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, who married her husband in the East Room in December 1967; and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was wed at the White House in the early 1900s. (AP)
The first wedding ever held in the White House was that of Maria Monroe, daughter of President James Monroe. The younger Monroe tied the knot in a private family ceremony in 1820.
Grover Cleveland, the only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms, married Frances Folsom (1864-1947) in the White House during his first term, on June 2, 1886. He is the second President married in office, and the only President married in the White House itself (wikipedia).
Jenna Bush is a 2004 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in English. Before becoming an intern with the United Nations Children’s Fund, she was an elementary school teacher in Washington for about 18 months.

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