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Laura Welch Bush (born Laura Lane Welch on November 4, 1946) is the wife of President George W. Bush and serves as First Lady of the United States.
Laura Lane Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold and Jenna Welch. She was a very popular student at school and attended the same high school as Tommy Franks.
At the age of seventeen, on November 6, 1963, while driving a Chevrolet sedan, Welch ignored or overlooked a stop sign and struck and killed Michael Douglas, aged seventeen, in a Corvair sedan. Douglas had been an acquaintance of Welch. She and her passenger, Judy Dykes (also aged seventeen) were treated for minor injuries at a local hospital. Welch was not charged.
In recent press interviews she has said that: "All I can say about that (is) it was a very, very, tragic accident I was involved in when I was 17 years old, almost 40-something years ago. It was a terrible accident. It was terrible for everyone involved,".."I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing... for the family involved and for me as well," she said. [1]
Laura earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1968 from Southern Methodist UniversitySouthern Methodist University often known by its acronym of SMU is a private university in University Park, Texas, USA. University Park is one of two adjacent Dallas suburbs sometimes called The Bubble (the other being Highland Park) because they are surr in DallasDallas redirects here. For other uses see Dallas (disambiguation Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas. It is the county seat of Dallas County and small portions of the city al. After graduating, she became a schoolteacher at Longfellow Elementary School in Dallas Independent School District until 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i. She then taught at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School DistrictThe Houston Independent School District is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. HISD operates schools in most of Houston, Bellaire, and West University Place. The district also takes students from Southsi school in HoustonHouston redirects here. For other meanings of the word, please see Houston (disambiguation). Downtown Houston Skyline Located in southeast Texas, Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States and one of the two largest economic areas in Texas., until 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un.
Bush earned a Master of Science degreeA master's degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. In the UK it is sometimes awarded for an undergraduate course whose final year consists of higher-level courses and a major re in Library Science in 1973 from the University Texas in Austin. She is the second First Lady (after Hillary Clinton) to hold a post graduate degree. After that, she worked at the Kashmere Gardens Branch at the Houston Public Library, until 1974, when she moved back to Austin. She was a librarian at an Austin Independent School District school, Dawson Elementary School, until 1977.
She met George W. Bush in 1977 at the home of mutual friends and married him on November 5 of that year. In 1981, she gave birth to twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, now graduated from college.