First Among Ladies

Two future Presidents and one First Lady, 1947 (Time)

Barbara Bush was the last of the "traditional" First Ladies, that is, she didn't have a career outside the home. Neither did she care to look the part of a lawyer or a librarian--in fact she "famously wore fake pearls and a $29 pair of shoes to her husband's Presidential inauguration" in 1989.

Barbara Pierce Bush was the daughter of Marvin Pierce, the publisher of women's magazines Redbook and McCall's, each a big deal pre-Internet. Her ancestor was Thomas Pierce, who was a resident of Charleston, MA in 1634 (Thomas wasn't on the Mayflower).

She was so blue-blooded that looking like a blue-blood didn't matter to her at all.

R.I.P.