George H. W. and Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce met George H. W. Bush at a dance in Connecticut. She was 16, he was 17. Eighteen months later, they got engaged, right before George H. W. left to fight as a Navy bomber pilot in World War II. When he returned from the war, in 1945, they got married. Barbara and George had six children: George W., Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Dorothy, and Robin, who died of leukemia at the age of three. When George H. W. became President in 1989, Barbara devoted her first lady responsibilities to literacy, starting an organization in her name.