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Columba Bush is known for being a huge supporter and wife of former Florida <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">governor</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">Jeb Bush</a>. She is a <a href="/biography/columba-bush">philanthropist</a> and served as the First Lady of Florida from 1999 to 2007.

Background

Columba Bush was born in 1953 in Guanajuato, Mexico as Columba Guernica. She is the <a href="/biography/columba-bush">daughter</a> of Jose Maria Garnica Rodriguez. Her father was a migrant worker and also a waiter for Arperos Guanajuato. Her mother is Josefina Gallo Esquivel and she was born in Leon.

Her parents got married in the year 1949 but her father abandoned the family when she was only 3 years old. When her father left, the family remained in the city of Leon and the divorce of her parents was finalized without any signs of possible reconciliation.

Columba explained to the Washington Post how it felt to dealt with the divorce of her parents at such a young age, “When my parents divorced, it was a really big deal for their families and friends. To get divorced in the sixties in Mexico was a sin.”

Meeting Her Future Husband

Columba went to the Instituto Antonia Mayllen and which is a private Catholic school located in a historic center at Leon. It was there that she met with her future husband <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">Jeb Bush</a> in the year 1970 when she was only 16 years old and when he was 17 years old.

Bush started to teach English as a second language and she was assisting in the building of the school in a small nearby village in Ibarrilla. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">Jeb</a> was the part of the class of Andover and it was called Man and Society.

Columba Bush got married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">Jeb Bush</a> in the year 1974 and the wedding took place in Texas. It was held in the chapel of the Catholic Student Center on the campus of the University of Texas. At the time of the wedding, she was not able to speak English, so a part of marriage ceremony was conducted in the Spanish language.

Political Career

When she was the First Lady of Florida, she was at the front and advocate for the Florida Coalition against Domestic Violence and the Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse and for the Arts For Life and the Group. The Arts group gives scholarships to the young artists around the state. Columba Bush has been active when it comes to promoting arts.

In the year 1999, she worked for the Arts of Complete Education in Florida Alliance of Arts Education called ACE/FAAE in order Arts for Life. This is the program that it is devoted to increasing the importance of the arts for the education system.

As the first Lady, Columba Bush put together art exhibitions that focus on famous artists like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí">Salvador Dali</a>, Florida Kahlo, and <a href="/biography/diego-rivera">Diego Rivera</a>. Bush is active <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">member</a> of programs that warns people about dangers that are caused by the drug abuse. She has worked on the treatment and also on the prevention of drug programs like National Institute on the Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, better known as NIAAA.

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She has served as the co-chair of the NIAAA initiative. She is in the leadership of Keeping Children Alcohol Free company.

Champion of Domestic Violence Awareness

Columba likes to support her husband in his campaigns and political events but she has also been able to be champion of her own issues. Her vast experience watching her husband participate in the political world gave her confidence that she could raise awareness about things that she personally cares about as well.

On her husband’s Youtube channel called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">Jeb Bush</a>, she appears in a video called “Ending Domestic Violence” where she makes some comments on domestic violence, “October is the month for awareness of domestic violence. You are the key of raising the awareness. I believe both of us have a responsibility to use our voices to those suffering the most. So I'm giving a speech here tonight for the first time because I am all in for my husband. I've been married for 41 years with Jeff. Yu know he's been very helpful, he is incredible, he's involved in every issue that I am. I've been visiting some of the shelters, I'm so happy and honored to work with you. People that help the victims are very important. Every year it grows, it increases in in the most incredible ways that you can imagine. You have to take action. You know there's no step too small so that's you know the message I have for everybody you know to learn more about to get educated in to participate more in this Cara charity that is very important.”

Personal Life

She was naturalized to be a US citizen in the year 1979. Her net worth with her husband is estimated to be around 28.5 million dollars. Her height is five feet tall but she is a very strong <a href="/biography/columba-bush">woman</a> when it comes to her mind.

She is a big <a href="/biography/columba-bush">fan</a> of jewelry. She has spent a lot of money on her jewelry collection during her husband’s political career and the vast income he has been able to bring into their household. She was detained and fined by customs officials for lying about how much she’d spent during a Paris shopping trip in 1999. The truth was she spent $19,000 but ended up paying more than $4000 in fines when she lied about the actual amount

She was attacked in the media for weeks for her tendency to lie about her spending habits. She did not care about the negative attention, she wanted to spend as much as she could and the public shaming was not enough to stop her.

In the year 2000, she spent $42,311 in one day on a handful of pieces of diamond jewelry. There wasn’t an amount that was too much for her. Her purchases included a $25,000 pair of platinum diamond stud earrings and a $10,500 bracelet that she loved very much. She will not end her jewelry collection even amongst that bad publicity.

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