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EXCLUSIVE: An illegal immigrant, warring parents and a bitter rift with the father she did not see for 40 years – the extraordinary story of Columba Bush as her husband bids to make her the first Hispanic first lady
Her husband is the leading Republican candidate for the White House and hopes to pull off an unprecedented feat: to be the third member of the same family to hold the presidency.
But at Jeb Bush’s side, his wife Columba also stands to make history. She would, of course, be the third Mrs Bush in the White House.
But she would – crucially – be the first Hispanic first lady, and only the second born outside the United States.
Columba has kept herself out of the limelight since he announced his plan to run, as she has throughout his political career.
But Daily Mail Online can today reveal the remarkable story of how the daughter of a Mexican peasant from a farm without running water joined America’s premier political dynasty; and the sad family rift which has marred that journey to the gates of the White House.
Columba, it can be disclosed, is the daughter of a man w
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The Mysterious Columba Bush
Politics
Who is Jeb’s wife, what effect will she have on his campaign—and what effect will his campaign have on their marriage?
By Hanna Rosin
Now and then in an otherwise unmemorable speech, Jeb Bush will drop a mention of his wife, like a sudden pop of color. At an event in Nevada this March, one of his first speeches of this campaign season, before a crowd of what The Washington Post called “everyday Americans,” Bush opened with a husband-still-in-thrall routine. His life, he said, can be divided into two parts: “b.c. and a.c.—before Columba and after Columba,” referring to Columba Garnica de Gallo, the woman he fell madly in love with while on a high-school trip to Mexico and then married 41 years ago.
The crowd, full of seniors and some Spanish speakers, awwwed and cheered. Columba herself was not in attendance. Perhaps because he hadn’t officially declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, she felt no hurry to claim her title as candidate’s wife.
Friends of the Bush family to this day t
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Columba Bush
American philanthropist
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Garnica and the second or maternal family name is Gallo.
Columba Bush (née Garnica Gallo; Latin American Spanish:[koˈlumbaɣaɾˈnikaˈɣaʝo]; born August 17, 1953) is a Mexican-American[1]philanthropist.[2][3] As the wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, she served as the First Lady of Florida from 1999 to 2007.
Early life
Columba Garnica Gallo was born in the community of Arperos, in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico,[3] the daughter of José María Garnica Rodríguez (1925–2013), a migrant worker and waiter from Arperos, Guanajuato, and Josefina Gallo Esquivel (May 8, 1920 – August 14, 2016), from León, who were married in February 1949. Columba's father emigrated to the United States in 1956 when she was 3 years old[4] and her parents divorced in 1963.[5] Following the departure of her father, Columba and her mother remained in León.[5][6]
Garnica attended Instituto
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