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Children of US presidents are in the public eye almost as much as their famous parents. Some first kids have followed their parents into politics, while others have preferred to stay out of the limelight.
As evidenced by Hunter Biden’s firearms trial, in which he was convicted of firearms charges and for which he was recently pardoned by his dad, Joe Biden, even adult children of presidents aren’t exempt from public scrutiny.
Here’s what some other famous first kids are currently doing.
Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy moved into the White House aged three; her father John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, just days before his daughter’s sixth birthday. Caroline went on to attend Harvard University’s Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
She was the first woman to serve as ambassador to Japan, AP News reported. She resigned from the job shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn in in 2017. Joe Biden nominated her as US Ambassador to Australia in 2021, and she took up the role in 2022, according to the official US Embassy website.
The former lawyer also serves as president of the JFK Presidential Library and has written bestselling books on constitutional law, American history and poetry.
Caroline is married to American artist and designer Edwin Schlossberg and they have three children.
George W. Bush, the oldest of George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush’s children

George W. Bush went to Yale and worked in the oil business before venturing into politics himself. He campaigned for his father in 1988 and served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush served as the 43rd president at the start of the war in Iraq. He was criticised for his handling of the “War on Terror” launched after the events of September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina and other challenges, The New York Times reported.
Today, he is enjoying retirement as a grandfather and an artist. In 2021, he released a book of paintings titled Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants. His friendship with former first lady Michelle Obama has also made headlines.
John Ellis “Jeb” Bush stayed close to his father’s administration as he pursued his own political ambitions

Jeb Bush transitioned from corporate life to public office in the 1980s, first as the chairman of the Dade County Republican Party and eventually as governor of Florida.
After serving as governor and running for president in 2015, Jeb became a university professor.
He published an op-ed in the Miami Herald in 2020 calling for a “student and parents ‘bill of rights’ that secures their right to access, quality and transparency”.
He married Columba Garnica Gallo in 1974 and they have three children.
Neil Bush’s experience with dyslexia inspired Barbara Bush’s focus on childhood literacy programmes as first lady

Neil Bush earned a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Tulane University. He founded the educational software company Ignite! Learning in 1999 after struggling with dyslexia as a child, KHOU 11 reported.
An international businessman, Neil currently chairs the board of directors at Points of Light, the philanthropic group his father founded.
In addition to Points of Light, Neil chairs the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, the Bush China US Relations Foundation, and several property development companies and consulting firms.
Neil married Sharon Bush and they had three children. In 2003, they divorced and he married Maria Andrews in 2004, CNN reported.
Marvin Bush attended the University of Virginia and worked in insurance

Marvin Bush’s family gave him the nickname “Marvellous”, The New York Times reported.
Today, he is a managing partner at an investment firm in Washington DC.
Marvin is president of the Washington DC-based investment firm Winston Capital Management, Bloomberg reported.
Marvin made headlines during the 2016 presidential election when he endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson over Trump after his brother Jeb’s exit from the race, The Washington Times reported.
He married Margaret Conway in 1981 and they adopted two children.
Dorothy Bush Koch married former Democratic aide Robert “Bobby” Koch in a private ceremony at Camp David

The sixth and youngest child of George H.W. Bush earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston College in 1982 and married her first husband that same year. They divorced in 1990, and two years later she wed Robert “Bobby” Koch at Camp David, the presidential retreat. Koch previously worked as an aide to Richard Gephardt, a Democratic congressman.
Dorothy is involved in a number of charities and philanthropies, and she serves as the honorary co-chair of The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, according to its official website.
She published My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush, a memoir of her life as the 41st president’s daughter. She also helped found a wellness company called Bright Bold & Real that educates people about mindfulness and holistic living.
She and Koch live in Maryland. She has four children, two of whom are from her first marriage.
Chelsea Clinton was 12 years old when Bill Clinton entered the White House

The Clintons asked the media to give the preteen Chelsea Clinton privacy outside of public appearances, CNN reported, but she still faced intense scrutiny and ridicule as a child from the likes of political commentator Rush Limbaugh and Saturday Night Live.
She began studying at Stanford University in 1997. She went on to earn two master’s degrees: one in international relations from Oxford and one in public health from Columbia University, according to her bio on Columbia University’s official website.
Chelsea is currently vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, where she champions the group’s advocacy work in global health and childhood obesity. She previously worked as a special correspondent for NBC News, has written several children’s books, and she’s active on X discussing public health and dealing with bullies.
While her mother, Hillary, lost the presidency to Trump, Chelsea said a future for her in politics was a “definite maybe”, The Press Association reported in 2018.
She and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, have three children.
President George W. Bush’s older twin daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush, graduated from Yale during his presidency and moved to New York City

Barbara Bush and her twin sister, Jenna Bush Hager, campaigned for their father and gave a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Within five years of graduating from Yale, Barbara co-founded Global Health Corps, a non-profit that recruits young professionals to fight for better access to healthcare around the world.
Barbara’s political views differ from her family’s. She spoke out in support of same-sex marriage in 2011, The New York Times reported. She was also a noted Hillary Clinton supporter during the 2016 election, attending a campaign fundraiser in Paris, CNN reported.
In 2017, she and her sister Jenna released a memoir called Sisters First about growing up in a political dynasty.
In 2018, Barbara married screenwriter Craig Coyne at the Bush family’s Walker Point compound in Maine, People magazine reported. They welcomed a daughter in 2021.
After working as executive-in-residence with philanthropic venture Schmidt Futures, she transitioned to leading the social responsibility department at the NBA, AP News reported.
The younger Bush twin, Jenna Bush Hager, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and started work as a teacher’s aide

The younger of the Bushes’ twin daughters, Jenna Bush Hager earned a degree in English and worked as a teacher’s aide at a charter school in Washington DC. She took a leave of absence in 2006 to work for Unicef in Latin America before returning to the school, according to Lean In.
Bush Hager is now a host for NBC’s Today show. Since taking over at Today, her monthly book club has been so successful that it prompted Entertainment Weekly to dub her the new “book club queen”.
She and her husband, Henry Hager, have three children.
Malia Obama was 10 years old when President Barack Obama took office

Malia Obama graduated from Harvard in 2021 and started working in the film industry, serving as a writer for actor and musician Donald Glover’s Amazon Prime show, Swarm.
Malia’s interest in the entertainment industry began in secondary school. She interned on the cancelled CBS series Extant in 2014, and she spent the summer of 2015 interning on Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

After graduating from secondary school in 2016, she took a gap year where she interned at the now-defunct film studio The Weinstein Company, Newsweek reported.
In 2024, she made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with a short film called The Heart, which received lukewarm reviews.
At seven years old, Sasha Obama was the youngest child to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr

Like her sister, Sasha Obama attended Sidwell Friends School, where she became close friends with Joe Biden’s granddaughter Maisy Biden. Sasha and Maisy played together on the school’s Vipers basketball team, which Barack briefly coached before a rival team complained, he wrote in his memoir, A Promised Land.
Sasha started university at the University of Michigan and transferred to the University of Southern California.
In 2016, Sasha worked in the takeaway window at Nancy’s, a seafood restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard, with six Secret Service agents in tow, the Boston Herald reported.
Sasha graduated from USC with a degree in sociology in 2023, Essence reported.
Donald Trump Jr served as executive vice-president for the Trump organisation and was instrumental in his father’s presidential campaign

As executive vice-president, Trump Jr focused on expanding the commercial and real estate side of the business and appeared on The Apprentice.
He played a key role in his father’s election campaign, making US$50,000 speeches on his behalf and famously meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016 to get “dirt” on his father’s opponent Hillary Clinton.
He and his ex-wife, Vanessa, with whom he shares five children, finalised their divorce in February 2018, and he began dating former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle that May.
Trump Jr continues to speak at Trump rallies, bought a house in Florida, and is engaged to Guilfoyle.
In 2022, Trump Jr was named – along with his father and two of his siblings, Ivanka and Eric – in a civil lawsuit filed by New York’s attorney general Letitia James, who accused them of overvaluing the former president’s assets by billions of dollars to banks and insurers.
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka served as an official adviser to her father in the White House

Ivanka Trump served as a White House adviser to her father beginning in early 2017. In 2018, she was criticised for using a personal account to send hundreds of government-related emails, The Washington Post reported.
Before that, she worked at the Trump Organization with her brothers, but she resigned to avoid any conflicts of interest. She also had her own Ivanka Trump fashion brand, which she shut down in 2018.
She is married to real estate developer Jared Kushner, who was also an adviser in the Trump White House. They have three young children.
Since Donald’s presidency, Ivanka and Kushner have bought multiple properties in Florida and continued work on Kushner’s Abraham Accords Caucus.
Ivanka cooperated with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, appearing for eight hours of questioning in April 2022.
Like his older brother, Eric Trump worked as an executive vice-president at the family business and appeared on The Apprentice before Trump’s presidency

In 2007, Eric created a charitable foundation to raise money for St Jude Children’s Research hospital in Tennessee, but he later stopped fundraising to avoid confusion around donations in the wake of his father’s run to be president, NPR reported. In 2017, the foundation came under fire when a Forbes report alleged that thousands in donations were funnelled to the Trump Organization. A spokesperson responded, “Contrary to recent reports, at no time did the Trump Organization profit in any way from the foundation or any of its activities.”
In 2014, he married Lara Lea Yunaska. They have two children.
He is still a vice-president at the Trump Organization, which is currently being investigated for fraud, and is a regular on Fox News.
In March 2021, he and his wife, Lara Trump, bought a US$3.2 million estate in Jupiter, Florida, inside the Trump National Golf Club gated community.
Eric also made regular appearances on Fox News criticising Joe Biden’s leadership.
Tiffany Trump was in law school when her father took office

Tiffany Trump is the only child from the president’s second marriage to his second wife, television personality Marla Maples.
When she was 14, she released a single called “Like a Bird”, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show said she was considering becoming a professional singer. She was later profiled as one of the “Rich Kids of Instagram”.
Tiffany graduated from Georgetown University’s law school in 2020.
She married Michael Boulos, a businessman whose family owns a multibillion-dollar conglomerate of companies in Lagos, Nigeria, at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
Barron Trump moved into the White House in June 2017 after finishing the school year living at Trump Tower in Manhattan

Barron Trump was the first boy to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr.
While living in the White House, he attended St Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland, where tuition costs about US$40,000 a year. In 2017, he took his classmates to meet his dad at the White House.
After graduating from Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2024, Barron headed to New York University’s Stern School of Business – although his mother said in an interview that he is living at home in Manhattan, not on campus.
This article originally appeared on Business Insider.


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