page_title: Jenna Bush Hager
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jenna Bush Hager / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush and Barbara Bush stand with Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager following the young couple's wedding ceremony at Prairie Chapel Ranch Saturday, May 10, 2008, near Crawford, Texas. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
context_page_description: Jenna Bush Hager is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is currently the co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program Today.
  Hager and her twin sister, Barbara, are daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. They are the first and only twin children of a U.S. president.
  After her father's presidency, Hager became an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, and a television personality on NBC, being featured most prominently as a member of The Today Show as a correspondent, contributor and co-host.
context_section_description: Bush met Henry Chase Hager (born May 9, 1978) during the 2004 presidential campaign. They became engaged in August 2007. Before proposing, Hager asked President Bush for permission to marry his daughter. Their relationship became public when the two appeared together at a White House dinner for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in November 2005. Henry Hager attended St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, and holds an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He worked as a U.S. Department of Commerce aide for Carlos Gutierrez and as a White House aide for Karl Rove. He is the son of former Virginia Republican Party Chairman John H. Hager, who previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and as the U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary under George W. Bush. The wedding took place during a private ceremony on May 10, 2008, at her parents' Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas.
  Henry and Jenna Hager's first daughter, Margaret Laura "Mila" Hager was born on April 13, 2013. A second daughter, Poppy Louise Hager was born on August 13, 2015. Their third child and first son, Henry Harold "Hal" Hager was born on August 2, 2019.
  Unlike most of her relatives (but like her twin sister Barbara), Hager is not a member of the Republican Party. While registering to vote in New York, she mistakenly registered with the Independence Party of New York while meaning to declare herself a nonpartisan. In 2010, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush told People that they preferred not to identify with any political party, stating, "We're both very independent thinkers."
  Hager serves on the board of the Greenwich International Film Festival.
caption: Barbara Bush (left), Laura Bush, newlyweds Henry and Jenna Hager, and George W. Bush shortly after the wedding ceremony on May 10, 2008, at the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas
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